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Different Hours: Poems
by: Stephen Dunn

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393322323
ISBN: 0393322327
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2002-01
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 363379

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Product Description:
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's eleventh volume. "I am interested in exploring the 'different' hours," he says, "not only of one's life, but also of the larger historical and philosophical life beyond the personal."

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- Pulitzer Prize-What else can be said
Needless to say this is the goal of a lifetime for modern poets; write a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poems. For Dunn this is validation of a lifetime of effort; the ultimate credential in poetry. The wording and imagery is exquisite. Unfortunately, he like most poets is not well served by his art. His poetry offers little for those searching for the next step but he seems to say there is no next step. For Dunn the truth is bland, ordinary, and frightenly hopeless. Dunn suggests we are all heading towards an abysmal oblivion. Some say he has the courage to look at reality. I know him and I say he could use some prozac or a good dose of the real truth; the eternal peace within all of us. But hey, it's like finding a needle in a hey stack. Say hello Steve.
I will ... Read More

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- Wow...welcome back to a time of Yeats and Eliot...
I first picked this book up before a class where we studied the Odyssey and while at the Columbia Bookstore I randomly opened the book up to 'Odysseus's Secret,' a poem that takes the Odysseus story and makes it applicable to the way with which we live our lives, moving with and dealing with the twists and turns that make us who we are. Suffice it to say after reading that I bought it immediately. After reading some of the other poems, most especially 'The Reverse Side,' I fell in love with this and can see why it was chosen to win the Pulitzer. The poetry uses such sparse language, yet conveys and addresses some of the major hurdles we deal with in life. I loved it and have placed it on my shelf next to some Yeats and Eliot.

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- Great Poems
I'm no poet, and I'm not about to wax poetic here, on Amazon.com. I simply enjoy reading good poetry. There are only a few of us. You know, the people who read but don't write poetry.

Different Hours is by far my favorite collection of poetry. I've read many of Dunn's other collections, and have not been as impressed. This has nothing to do with the little gold stamp on the corner of the cover, either. The poems are well-balanced, and make you feel like Dunn has revealed something about his subject that is just under the surface - whether it be aging, weather, or nostalgic memories. The feeling is similar to being around someone with a skill not your own, like playing basketball with someone who, unlike you, can dunk. Unlike myself, and many writers I've read, Dunn is ... Read More

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- The Book That is Also a Friend
Few poets achieve such a plainspoken poignancy as Mr. Dunn. I think of Cavafy, C.K. Williams, Philip Larkin, Horace -- masters of the craft gifted with the knack for discovering scraps of truth within the simplest words. "You might as well be a clown/big silly clothes, no evidence of desire," Dunn suggests in the book's opening poem. This is the language that gets you clawing through the pages to get to the lines that know you, that approve of some private cowardice or failure you wouldn't dare confess even to the closest friend.

But there is a kind of trust Dunn builds with the reader here, a wisdom so simple yet complicated enough that you could not quite have put your finger on it as quickly or accurately as he. I mean how his poems know that "as we fall in love/we are already ... Read More

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- a well-deserved Pulitzer
As a Jerseyite, I know quite well that there are a lot of poets in this state, but Stephen Dunn is easily the best. Hopefully, the country will know that he is one of the best poets in the country with this book, because it well deserved the Pulitzer Prize. This is poetry you can read to your girlfriend and not feel sappy about it.

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