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Everything Else in the World: Poems
by: Stephen Dunn

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780393330380
ISBN: 0393330389
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 461658

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"Essential to contemporary poetry collections."—Library Journal

In his fourteenth collection, Stephen Dunn, "one of our indispensable poets" (Miami Herald), continues to probe brilliantly the unsaid and the elusive in the lives we live, in language that Gerald Stern has called "unbearably fearless and beautiful."

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Rating:

- Emptiness
Still enjoying the book...have read the first half of the book in one sitting and the mundaneness of life (having to go to work) has forced me to delay reading the rest...

ANyone who can write like this ...is a genius!

EMPTINESS

I've learned mine can't be filled,
only alchemized. Many times
it's become a paragraph or a page.
But usually I've hidden it,
not knowing until too late
how enormous it grows in its dark.

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- A great american poet
Dunn well deserved the Pulitzer. His body of work is impressive and while this voulme is good, it is not one of best but still a joy. He ruminates on life from the perspective of age, "A Small Part"(many summers later I'd learn to love/the shadows illumination creates/but experience always occurs too late/to undo what's been done). And he imparts the wisdom of having seen a lot over a very long time in "Critics" ("Their job is sometimes to winnow/and omit.Yours is to go on...your job is to show up,continue on.") For first timers, try"Bewteen Angels" or "Local Visitations."

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- poems rooted in common soil
Over time, Stephen Dunn has dared to tackle the intangible as well as the concrete. This is in addition to the multitudinous sides of human existence he has always explored. Dunn does not reveal what we want to know about ourselves, but what we need to know. Just like in _Riffs & Reciprocities_, where opposites found similarities and agreement and common bonds within each other, so do the explorations of this fine poet in this collection touch upon not only the light and dark, but the softly illuminated as well. From taking on the challenge of explicating the adulterer to the point of empathy and maybe unwilling agreement with the reader, to the wisdom of self that comes through the revealing of dark family secrets, Dunn rubs the tarnish off of hidden heirlooms that may still never ... Read More

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