The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815633358)

The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn is the first book of its kind to explore and unpack the Pulitzer-winning poet's oeuvre. Including twenty-four essays, a foreword by poet and essayist Dave Smith, and an introduction by Laura McCullough, this anthology illuminates Dunn's development as a writer, his thematic obsessions, and his strategies and maneuvers on the page; it also locates him in the pantheon of essential American poets. Philosophical, funny, and founded on the juxtaposition of ideas with masterful tonal layering and texture, Dunn's poems are considered some of the best of his generation. The contributing poets and scholars, including Dunn's contemporaries and former students, highlight Dunn's meditations on freedom and constraint, sexuality and sorrow, sound and sense, and the mystery in the dailiness of living. Fans will find this a crucial text that reveals the complexities of Dunn's poetry and much about the man himself.

Author: Laura McCullough
ISBN-10: 0815633351
ISBN-13: 9780815633358
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2013
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.10d