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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Here and now: poems
โ Scribed by Stephen Dunn
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2013;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"A wonderful example of the poet's ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts."--Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post In his sixteenth collection, Stephen Dunn continues to bring his imagination and intelligence to what Wallace Stevens calls "the problems of the normal," which of course pervade most of our lives. The poem "Don't Do That" opens with the lines: "It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything / hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red / along with some resentment I'd held in / for a few weeks." In other poems, Dunn contemplates his own mortality, echoing Yeats--"That is no country for old men / cadenced everything I said"--only to discover he's joined their ranks. In "The Writer of Nudes" his speaker is in search of the body's "grammar" but tells his models, "Don't expect to see yourself as other / than I see you." Full of grace, wit, humor, and masterful precision, the poems in Here and Now attest to the contradictions we live with...
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