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What Goes On: Selected And New Poems, 1995-2009 (2009)

by Stephen Dunn(Favorite Author)

4.41 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0393067750 (ISBN13: 9780393067750)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Stephen Dunn is quite the poet. I enjoyed his more narrative style, which is right up my alley and writing style when tackling poetry. I enjoyed reading this collection that spanned nearly fifteen years of his work. He is not the kind of poet to play around too much with the form or structure of his poems, but you can see an unmistakable growth in his poetry even later in his career. The one exception concerning the structure is with one particular book of poems, Riffs and Reciprocities, where all the poems are prose proems. His same lyrical style is pleasant and the flow of the words and rhythm are still present. Overall, a great book of poems to check out from one of America's greats.
review 2: This book of selected poems means more to me than any other... more. I've read and reread every poem in this book numerous times and they keep revealing their wisdom. For the record I'm not a poet (though I do write fiction). I come to poetry not for insular words games or for the stringing together of vague but evocative phrases. That's relatively easy to do. What's hard is to craft a poem of genuine and original insight and to do it with real clarity. More than any other contemporary poet, Stephen Dunn does that for me. I'm altogether grateful for his work. less

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