Final Bow. Traveling (from "Sympathetic Magic") -- History -- Elementary -- Tucson -- If a Clown -- The Metaphysicians of South Jersey -- The Storyteller -- On the Death of a Colleague -- Round Trip -- 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 -- 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 -- Local Time -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Loosestrife -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
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.
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