| Description |
96 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1 -- Close to Running Amok p. 7 -- After Experience p. 9 -- Origins p. 10 -- I Was Thinking p. 11 -- Nothing Will Warn You p. 13 -- Little Pretty Things p. 15 -- Year before the Election p. 17 -- That Autumn p. 18 -- Last Hour p. 19 -- Undercover Man p. 21 -- Historically Speaking p. 23 -- Office Prayer p. 25 -- 2 -- Woman in the Blue Dress p. 29 -- 3 -- An Education p. 39 -- Face He's Working On p. 40 -- Inheritance p. 42 -- Errors p. 44 -- Pagan Virtues p. 45 -- Normal p. 46 -- As If Chekhov had Written It p. 47 -- A Good Life p. 48 -- Misfortune p. 49 -- Ghost Song of the Retiree p. 50 -- For the Historians Among Us p. 52 -- 4 -- Mrs. Cavendish Poems -- Rachel Becomes Mrs. Cavendish p. 55 -- Young Mrs. Cavendish p. 57 -- Her Lament p. 59 -- Her Politics p. 60 -- Period of Mourning p. 61 -- Mrs. Cavendish's Dog p. 62 -- Winter Guide p. 63 -- Her American Dilemma p. 65 -- End of Secrecy p. 67 -- Mrs. Cavendish and the Dancer p. 69 -- Mrs. Cavendish and the General Malaise p. 71 -- Mrs. Cavendish's Dream p. 73 -- Mrs. Cavendish and the Outlaw p. 74 -- Mrs. Cavendish Speaks p. 75 -- Learning Curve p. 77 -- Mrs. Cavendish Speaks of the Unforgivable p. 79 -- Mrs. Cavendish Returns from Inner Space p. 80 -- Mrs. Cavendish Comes to Terms p. 81 -- Hope, And Other Four-Letter Words p. 82 -- Mrs. Cavendish and the Beyond p. 83 -- Democracy Game p. 85 -- Persistence of Desire p. 86 -- Keeper of Limits p. 87 -- Mrs. Cavendish Becomes the Real Thing p. 88 -- Man Left Behind p. 90. |
| Summary |
"Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn returns with his signature morbid wit, intellectual daring, and emotive powers on full display. In this meditative and incisive collection, Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems reflect on desire, restraint, and the roles we play in an ever- evolving society. A stunning sequence on the relationship between the speaker and "Mrs. Cavendish" examines an intimacy sustained and repelled by politics, philosophy, and attraction. Complex and evocative, Pagan Virtues offers indispensable truths from a master of contemporary poetry"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Ethics -- Poetry.
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Mortality -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781324002314 (hardcover) |
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132400231X (hardcover) |
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9781324002321 electronic publication |
| Standard No. |
40029619847 |
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