· J Eileen Kohan. The ‘Friday poem’ this week is ‘Last Hours’ from the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, ‘Different Hours’ by Stephen Dunn. The poem is set in an office in at nineteen minutes to five. NPR editor Barrie Hardymon selected her interview with the poet as a favorite in “This was one of these moments where, you know, he writes this very accessible poetry – and I Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Different Hours By Stephen Dunn Stephen Dunn, in his startling and graceful eleventh collection often set in southern New Jersey where he makes his home, continues to find his subjects in the dailiness of life, at the same time expanding his vision to a darker emotional landscape. 7 rows · · Stephen Dunn (–) was the author of nineteen poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc.
Stephen Dunn has 52 books on Goodreads with ratings. Stephen Dunn's most popular book is Different Hours. Different Hours by Stephen Dunn Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's eleventh volume. Poet Stephen Dunn was born on J in New York City. The first of his family to go to college, Dunn earned a BA from Hofstra University on a basketball scholarship and later worked in advertising. In an interview with Poets and Writers, Dunn discussed the leap from working in advertising to writing poetry: "My first job out of college was writing in-house brochures for Nabisco in.
Stephen Dunn. (born ) is an American poet and educator. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was born in Forest Hills, Queens. He is a poetic everyman of middle-class life in late 20th-century America, casting light on its comforts and tribulations. He strikes this characteristic stance in “Different Hours,” the book. Different Hours is arguably Dunn's most popular collection of poetry available in print—and for good reason. Lyrical, mesmerizing, and passionate, the collection weaves together a narrative of Dunn's experiences throughout his life without creating a "And there's your chronic emptiness / spiraling upward in search of words / you'll dare not say / without irony.".
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