false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174335428m/382424.jpg 382424 2 <B>An evocation of beauty's often-surprising manifestations&#151;even in the face of tragedy.</B><BR><BR>"Beauty isn't nice. Beauty isn't fair&#133;" So, in part, states an epigraph for this stunning new collection, his thirteenth, by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry (2000). First traversing betrayal and loss, Stephen Dunn then moves to speak of new love, with its attendant pleasures and questioning. The title poem, perhaps emblematic of the book as a whole, is evocative of beauty's often surprising manifestations&#151;even in the light of tragedy&#151;as on that terrible day "when those silver planes came out of the perfect blue."<BR><BR>Because beauty jars us, makes us look twice, it is as startling as a good poem, and as insistent. Fortunately, it is never too late to search for the right words for what we've seen, felt, endured. With quiet authority Dunn enacts what it feels like to be a particular man at a particular juncture of his life&#151;struggling not to deny, but to name, then rename. 372197 2004 The Insistence of Beauty: Poems total:70|5:27|4:25|3:14|2:3|1:1| 70 284 94 9 4 1 false false Sat Jun 07 11:14:48 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 11:14:48 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 15:50:02 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 13:13:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 13 21:05:01 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 21:08:49 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 23:18:21 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 23:23:47 -0700 2008
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