The Not Yet Fallen World
New and Selected Poems
31 May 2024
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
A radiant celebration of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Stephen Dunn’s enduring oeuvre
Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness and wit, enliven the ordinary with penetrating observation and alert us to the haunting wonders and relationships that surround us.
The Not Yet Fallen World draws from all nineteen of Stephen Dunn’s crystalline volumes, including his most recent, Pagan Virtues (2019); the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Loosestrife (1996); and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Different Hours (2000). By turns sardonic and profound, Dunn examines the disguises we don to hide from ourselves and reveals sublime beauty hidden within seemingly mundane interactions. Nine new poems extend the poet’s inquiry into the paradoxes of contemporary life; as he writes in "Love Poem Near the End of the World", "Something keeps me holding on / to a future I didn’t think possible".
Arranged to further Dunn’s signature themes—mortality, morality and the roles we play in the essential human comedy of getting through each day—this final collection captures the breadth of an acclaimed poet’s achievement. His legacy is a poetic expanse suffused with fearless generosity and perceptive wisdom.
Reviews
"This collection gathered froma. Lifetime of writing makes clear how distinct a voice Dunn has created, and how cohoerent, important, and moving his accomplishment." — Carl Dennis
Also By: Stephen Dunn 
Pagan Virtues: Poems
Paperback, 2022
"A sly, companionable collection” (The New York Times Book Review) that offers indispensable truths from a master of contemporary poetry
Pagan Virtues: Poems
E Book, 2019
"A sly, companionable collection” (The New York Times Book Review) that offers indispensable truths from a master of contemporary poetry
Whereas: Poems
Paperback, 2019
Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn examines the difficulties of telling the truth, and the fictions with which we choose to live.
Whereas: Poems
E Book, 2017
In wise and masterful poems, Stephen Dunn “reveals a deep understanding of human longing and the desire to become more than what we are” (Washington Post).
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962
Hardback, 2016
This edition—newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn—presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work.
