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W. W. Norton, hardcover

Publication Date: May 24, 2022

Publisher Marketing:A radiant celebration of Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Stephen Dunns 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 Worldis arranged to further Dunns 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 poets achievement, a poetic expanse suffused with fearless generosity and perceptive wisdom.

From The Widening

theres no such thing as a full stop

in musicsilence is a sound, an afterlife

for anyone with an ear.