The Room and the World : Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn / edited by Laura McCullough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCullough, Laura, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dunn, Stephen, 1939-2021--Criticism and interpretation.

Dunn, Stephen.

Dunn, Stephen, 1939-2021.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 344 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.

Contents:

Essays

Part 1

Beyond Words / Fred Marchant Marchant, Fred 3

The Desire to Keep Saying Yes / George Looney Looney, George 11

Against Satisfaction / James Davis May May, James Davis 20

Part 2

Compositional Strategies: Verse and Reverse / Gregory Djanikian Djanikian, Gregory 31

A Certain Capaciousness and "The Routine Things around the House" / BJ Ward Ward, BJ 42

The Reverse Side / David Jauss Jauss, David 49

Part 3

The Despoiled and Radiant Now / David Rigsbee Rigsbee, David 63

In-Dwelling / Kathleen Graber Graber, Kathleen 72

A Citizen of No State; or, the Politics of Ambiguity / Michael Broek Broek, Michael 88

Part 4

Making Moves in Loosestrife / Philip Dacey Dacey, Philip 99

Claustrophobia, Decency, Truth One Speaker's Civil War / Tony Hoagland Hoagland, Tony 107

Part 5

A Manifesto of the Spiritual and the Sacred / Ilyse Kusnetz Kusnetz, Ilyse 125

The Poet as Theogonist / James Hollis Hollis, James 135

Facing Masks and Masking Faces / Timothy Leyrson Leyrson, Timothy 143

Part 6

The Poet's Women and the Ordinary Mysteries / Alicia Ostriker Ostriker, Alicia 157

The Penumbra / Jason Schneiderman Schneiderman, Jason 161

Leaving Everything Behind in "The Affair" / R. Dwayne Betts Betts, R. Dwayne 167

Part 7

Angels and Terrorists Sociopolitical Identity in the Lyric Figure / Wendy Cannella Cannella, Wendy 173

The Poet, the Ice Traveler, and the Other / Andrea Hollander Hollander, Andrea 190

Implication: A Pastiche / Judith Kitchen Kitchen, Judith 199

Part 8

Double-Teaming / Stephen Corey Corey, Stephen 209

Mount Holyoke, 1992 / Pam Houston Houston, Pam 218

In a Different Hour: Collaboration, Revision, and Friendship / Lawrence Raab Raab, Lawrence 223

"Let Things Darken as They Will": The Revision Process / Lisa Honaker Honaker, Lisa 232

Part 9

Gods That Bite, Dogs Who Forgive / Peter E. Murphy Murphy, Peter E. 249

Scattered Notes on a Coherent Poet / Kurt Brown Brown, Kurt 253

Five Sketches of "Tenderness" / Brian Turner Turner, Brian 258

The Quarrel / Gerald Stern Stern, Gerald 264

The Voice of Stephen Dunn

Essays / Stephen Dunn Dunn, Stephen

Poetry Now, and Some Thoughts on History, As if, Maybe, and No 271

Forms and Structures 289

Intraview and Interview

Brief Answers to Unspoken Questions: An Intraview 303

Relentlessly Interesting: An Interview with / Stephen Dunn Dunn, Stephen, Laura McCullough McCullough, Laura 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815633358

0815633351

OCLC:

861497257