Different Hours

Stephen Dunn · 2000 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Plain-spoken poems of late middle age, set in suburban New Jersey kitchens, motels and classrooms, in which the speaker weighs marriage, his own failures and the odds of being forgiven. The voice is conversational, rueful and quick to turn an anecdote into an argument. It is a lyric collection and carries a Pulitzer Prize.

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