Stephen Dunn
The Insistence of Beauty
Poems
An evocation of beauty's oftensurprising
manifestations—even in the
face of tragedy.
STEPHEN DUNN'S POETRY exposes the ways that
beauty jars us and makes us look twice. This new collection
embraces betrayal and loss, then new love and
its attendant pleasures and questions. He argues that
while it is "always to late to argue with beauty" (Peter
Schejdahl), it is never too late to try to find the right
words for what we've seen, felt, and endured.
"One is tempted, because Dunn's poems are very,
very good, to sugarcoat their devastating beauty, to
make them appear gentler on the heart than they are.
But Dunn . . . is a relentless truth-seeker, and set loose
to locate beauty he will find it in the rawest places."—
Pablo Tanguay, Nashville Scene
"Dunn's poems reveal a mind alive within its own
inner-circlings, the transforming power of loss, the
fictions that lead to the core of our truths, the possibility
and reality of loving another again."—R. G.
Evans, The Literary Review
Pulitzer Prize winner STEPHEN DUNN,
Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing
at Richard Stockton College, lives in Frostburg,
Maryland.
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