By Stephen Dunn

ISBN-10: 0393254674

ISBN-13: 9780393254679

Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn examines the problems of telling the reality, and the fictions with which we decide to live.

Incisively shooting the eccentricities of our common sense and the whimsies of our cause, the poems in Whereas convey there's continually one other aspect to a narrative. With sleek rhythm and equivalent components humor and seriousness, Stephen Dunn considers the superstition and sophistry embedded in daily life: family items that appear to show opposed to us, the quest for that means within the barrage of day-by-day information, the outstanding confessions among friends throughout a row of hedges. discovering attractiveness within the usual, this assortment affirms the absurdity of creating affirmations, permitting room for extra rethinking, mirrored image, revision, prayer, and magic within the world.

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