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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author details an unconsummated love affair that sustains political, philosophical, and sexual interest over a lifetime.
The truth is always different
from what anyone says out loud,
but who really cares? Not I, said the man
I chose to be, nor I nor I nor I—
among the many of us she left teetering.
Stephen Dunn is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of seventeen collections of poetry, most recently Lines of Defense, Here and Now, and What Goes On: Selected & New Poems: 1995-2009. He teaches at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Price: $9.95
Pages: 40
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Series: Quarternote Chapbook Series
Publication Date:
01 September 2015
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781941411117
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
"The poetry here—the story here, the dynamic here—does what no other art form really can. It gives voice (in this case a voice in the plain style) to feeling and mood, to interiority, and the fragile ways we construct relationships out of private desires and public lies…. The theme of naming is…a theme about power, identity, shape-shifting, the fragmented self. All that is here. And all this is good enough reason to cherish this little book, its short glimpse into another's life, which, when rendered in poetry like Dunn's, becomes our life, too."
—Pleiades
Stephen Dunn is a Pulitzer Prize poet and the author of seventeen collections of poetry, most recently Lines of Defense, Here and Now, and What Goes On: Selected & New Poems: 1995-2009. He is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
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Mrs. Cavendish’s Politics
Mrs. Cavendish and the Period of Mourning
Mrs. Cavendish’s Dog
Mrs. Cavendish and the Winter Guide
Mrs. Cavendish and the American Dilemma
Mrs. Cavendish and the End of Secrecy
Mrs. Cavendish and the Dancer
Mrs. Cavendish and the General Malaise
Mrs. Cavendish’s Dream
Mrs. Cavendish and the Outlaw
Mrs. Cavendish Speaks
Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve
Mrs. Cavendish Speaks of the Unforgivable
Mrs. Cavendish Returns From Inner Space
Mrs. Cavendish Comes to Terms
Mrs. Cavendish, Hope, and Other Four Letter Words
Mrs. Cavendish and the Beyond
Mrs. Cavendish and the Democracy Game
Mrs. Cavendish and the Persistence of Desire
Mrs. Cavendish and the Keeper of Limits
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Mrs. Cavendish and the Man Left Behind