The not yet fallen world : new and selected poems / Stephen Dunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn, Stephen, 1939-2021, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xv, 254 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]

Summary:

"A radiant celebration of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn's enduring oeuvre. Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness and wit, enliven the ordinary with penetrating observation, and alert us to the haunting wonders and relationships that surround us. Drawing from eleven crystalline volumes, The Not Yet Fallen World is arranged to further Dunn's signature themes: mortality, morality, and the roles we play in the essential human comedy of getting through each day. This final collection captures the breadth of an acclaimed poet's achievement, a poetic expanse suffused with fearless generosity and perceptive wisdom"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Propositions

Traveling (from "Sympathetic Magic")

History

Elementary

Tucson

If a Clown

The Metaphysicians of South Jersey

The Storyteller

On the Death of a Colleague

2. Round Trip

3. Odysseus's Secret

Wild

At the Smithville Methodist Church

The Sacred

The Death of God

The Prayer You Asked For

The Woman with Five Hearts

Those of Us Who Think We Know

The Reverse Side

The Revolt of the Turtles

To a Terrorist (1993)

In the Battle Against Tyranny

4. Tiger Face

Don't Do That

Something Like Happiness

Burying the Cat

Buster's Visitation

The Arm

Honesty

A Petty Thing

Belly Dancer at the Hotel Jerome

8. Here and There

The Stairway

Fascinations

5. Local Time

6. Essay on the Personal

The Vanishings

Talk to God

Competition

Archaeology

Response to a Letter from France

The Routine Things Around the House

That Saturday Without a Car

What Goes On

Legacy

Juarez

7. Here and Now

Corners

Desire

Sea Level

Aren't They Beautiful?

Instead of You

If the Poet

And So

The Sudden Light and the Trees

From Underneath

Delineation at Dusk (from "The Snowmass Cycle")

Love Poem Near the End of the World

8. How to Write a Dream Poem

A Secret Life

Decorum

Bad

Testimony

The 6:10 to Happiness 14s John & Mary

Ambush at Five O'Clock

Eggs

Shatterings

Mon Semblable

Becoming Oneself

Birds

9. Loosestrife

10. Before the Storm

Story

The Waiting

In Love, His Grammar Grew

Tenderness

Sweetness

Stone Seeking Warmth

Language: A Love Poem

Privilege

Achilles in Love

The Imagined

Beautiful Women

The House Was Quiet

Five Roses in the Morning

11. Each from Different Heights

Thank You

Dancing with God

The Guardian Angel

Between Angels

Long Term

Happiness

All That We Have

Update

Everything Else in the World

Not the Occult

11. Turning Fifty

Sixty

Different Hours

What They Wanted

Summer Nocturne

Where He Found Himself

About the Elk and the Coyotes That Killed Her Calf

Around the Time of the Moon

Discrepancies

The Widening

Afterlife

13. During the Pandemic

A Postmortem Guide (1)

The Color of Nightfall

An Abbreviated Tour of the Not Yet Fallen World

What Men Want

A Postmortem Guide (z)

Final Bow.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780393882254

039388225X

OCLC:

1272857723