{"product_id":"local-visitations-poems-9780393326031","title":"Local Visitations: Poems","description":"In his twelfth collection, his first since winning the Pulitzer Prize, Stephen Dunn turns his keen gaze on Sisyphus, our contemporary Everyman. Free, for the time being, from the power of the gods and the ceaseless weight of the rock, he struggles to navigate twenty-first-century America. In language by turns mordant and tender, often elegiac, Dunn illuminates the quotidian burdens of his all-too-human hero, as well as the abrasions of ambivalence and choice, finally concluding that here \/ and there, though mostly here, even fate is reversible \/ with struggle or luck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a second sequence of poems, nineteenth-century novelists become local visitors to the author's South Jersey towns. Chekhov in Port Republic, Jane Austen in Egg Harbor, Dostoyevsky in Wildwood: these inventions and others give Dunn provocative new latitudes. As in his previous books, he balances the casual and the vivid as he plumbs the ambiguity and mystery of human relations (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Dunn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.52w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393326031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2005 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDunn, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Dunn\u003c\/strong\u003e (1939-2021) was the author of nineteen poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eDifferent Hours\u003c\/em\u003e. He was a distinguished professor emeritus at Richard Stockton University and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many other honors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40110236500083,"sku":"9.78039E+12","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9bfa9241-f358-4ed0-babb-1727432eb003.jpg?v=1653402701","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/local-visitations-poems-9780393326031","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}