Whereas Poems [Hardcover]

Abold and elegant conversation with wisdom itself. . . . A complex guidebook tocontemporary life. These poems explore lifes contradictions and mysterieswhile creating light from the dark spaces of death and doubt. . . . Triumphant.Dunn takes aim ateverything, especially our search for meaning in a culture of posttruth and toomuch news, some of it skewed. He does so with humor, wit, and a dose ofgravitas, grasping detail and nuance. . . A timely and necessary addition.Incisively capturing the oddities of logic and whimsies of reason, Pulitzer Prize-winner Dunn considers with grace, humor, and gravity the superstition and sophistry embedded in everyday life.Stephen Dunn has long known how to begin a poem so it sounds like part of a conversation, how to move the poem along by following its own curiosities, and how to deliver just enough wisdom at the end. Hes still doing it all right here, better than ever, in this fresh new collection.Occasionally one of our best poets gets even better. InTheres a deep and reliable honesty that drives these poems, a kind of courageous revelation not of old wounds and losses, but of something like the-way-things-are. That the poems manage this kind of transmission of (no other word for it) truth, and make that truth so much a delight to hearwell, thats what Stephen Dunn has been doing all his writing life. Thats why his poems have been, and remain, indispensable.Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn examines the difficulties of telling the truth, and the fictions with which we choose to live.