Stephen Dunn

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June 24, 1939 in New York, The United States

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http://www.stephendunnpoet.com/

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Stephen Dunn was born in New York City in 1939. He earned a B.A. in history and English from Hofstra University, attended the New School Writing Workshops, and finished his M.A. in creative writing at Syracuse University. Dunn has worked as a professional basketball player, an advertising copywriter, and an editor, as well as a professor of creative writing.

Dunn's books of poetry include Everything Else in the World (W. W. Norton, 2006); Local Visitations (2003); Different Hours (2000), winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry; Loosestrife (1996); New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1994); Landscape at the End of the Century (1991); Between Angels (1989); Local Time (1986), winner of the National Poetry Series; Not Dancing (1984);...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 2,601 ratings · 275 reviews · 36 distinct works

	Different Hours 4.17 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994 4.39 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Between Angels 4.24 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Insistence of Beauty 4.11 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Loosestrife 3.98 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	What Goes On: Selected and New Poems, 1995-2009 4.37 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry 4.12 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Everything Else in the World 4.07 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Landscape at the End of the Century 4.27 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Local Visitations 3.69 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Altruism is for those
who can't endure their desires.
There's a world

as ambiguous as a moan,
a pleasure moan
our earnest neighbors

might think a crime.
It's where we could live.
I'll say I love you,

Which will lead, of course,
to disappointment,
but those words unsaid

poison every next moment.
I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.

--Mon Semblable”
― Stephen Dunn, Different Hours

tags: disappointment , love , pleasure

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“I've tried

to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.”
― Stephen Dunn

tags: identity , poem , poetry , self

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“I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone ever has.”
― Stephen Dunn

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