Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunnis an American poet and educator. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other awards are three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship. A collection of essays about Dunn's poetry was published in 2013...
like-love lovely insufficient
And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
links purpose answers
Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.
moments elegance curious
Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
tested has-beens left
I love what's left after love has been tested.
disappointment love-you thinking
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
mask unfair knows
Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.
astonishment alive body
Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
american-poet reaction
The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time.