In his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner
Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we
draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the
absurdities of modern life, expectations derailed, the lived life
juxtaposed to the imagined life, and the defenses we don to make
do. The poems in Lines of Defense are wry and elegiac, precisely
observed and wide-reaching. As with the best of Dunn s work, they
take stock of the quotidian aspects of life, of the essential
comedy of getting through the day: finding a lost cat; not being
invited to a party; taking a granddaughter to a carnival. The lines
of defense are the lines of the verse itself, as poetry forms a
stronghold against mortality. This essential volume showcases a
poet writing at the height of his powers.
From Before We Leave:
Where are we going? It s not an issue of here or there. And if
you ever feel you can t take another step, imagine how you might
feel to arrive, if not wiser, a little more aware how to inhabit
the middle ground between misery and joy."
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