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Lines of Defense: Poems
Stephen Dunn
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Description for Lines of Defense: Poems
Paperback. Showcases this Pulitzer prize-winning poet writing at the height of his powers. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 209 x 2. Weight in Grams: 134.
In his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the absurdities of modern life, expectations derailed, the lived life juxtaposed to the imagined life, and the defences we don to make do. The poems in Lines of Defense are wry and elegiac, precisely observed and wide-reaching. As with the best of Dunn’s work, they take stock of the quotidian aspects of life, of the essential comedy of getting through the day: finding a lost cat; not being invited to a party; taking a granddaughter to a carnival. The lines of defense are the lines of the verse itself, as poetry forms a stronghold against mortality. This essential volume showcases a poet writing at the height of his powers.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393350722
SKU
V9780393350722
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About Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn (1939–2021) was the author of nineteen poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Different Hours. He was a distinguished professor emeritus at Richard Stockton University and received an Academy Award in Literature, among many other honors.
Reviews for Lines of Defense: Poems
"Stephen Dunn's fresh batch of poems teaches us that 'to tell' is just as good as 'to show' if you have something worth telling. These are smart, forceful, meticulously spoken poems that tell us some vital truths about how to conduct our lives."
Billy Collins "Stephen Dunn's newest poems-retrospective, elegiac, comic, quotidian, tactful, and transcendent-true the self's comprehensions of its own stories as a sawyer's jig, file, and hammer true a saw, yet without ever sacrificing tenderness for sharpness (or the reverse). Lines of Defense reconfirms Dunn's long-held place as one of our most necessary American poets: if he did not exist, we would have to invent him. But-what luck- exist he does."
Jane Hirshfield "Over a lifetime richly invested in poetry, Dunn has mastered his signature take on an artfully colloquial voice that, in the guise of plainspeaking, slyly lampoons our daily pretensions, tenderly empathizes with our daily disappointments, and reminds us that the day-to-day can serve as the gateway to otherness. Lines of Defense is an admirable addition to that life-work, its difficult honesties and wrestlings with conscience lurking under beckoningly, entertainingly casual surfaces."
Albert Goldbarth
Billy Collins "Stephen Dunn's newest poems-retrospective, elegiac, comic, quotidian, tactful, and transcendent-true the self's comprehensions of its own stories as a sawyer's jig, file, and hammer true a saw, yet without ever sacrificing tenderness for sharpness (or the reverse). Lines of Defense reconfirms Dunn's long-held place as one of our most necessary American poets: if he did not exist, we would have to invent him. But-what luck- exist he does."
Jane Hirshfield "Over a lifetime richly invested in poetry, Dunn has mastered his signature take on an artfully colloquial voice that, in the guise of plainspeaking, slyly lampoons our daily pretensions, tenderly empathizes with our daily disappointments, and reminds us that the day-to-day can serve as the gateway to otherness. Lines of Defense is an admirable addition to that life-work, its difficult honesties and wrestlings with conscience lurking under beckoningly, entertainingly casual surfaces."
Albert Goldbarth