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Date
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UA Poetry Center
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Modern Languages Auditorium
Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn opens with poems from Full of Lust and Good Usage (1976), which would be published the year following this reading. He then reads from Looking for Holes in the Ceiling (1974) before closing with poems that would later appear in A Circus of Needs (1978).
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"Poem for People Who Are Understandably Too Busy to Read Poetry"
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Uncollected.
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"Transitions"
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Description
Differs slightly from published version.
Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Coming Home, Garden State Parkway"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Small Town: The Friendly"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Small Town: The Cycle"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Truck Stop: Minnesota"
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Description
Differs slightly from published version.
Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Visiting the City Again"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Hands Full of Dangerous Red Berries"
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Description
Unpublished collaborative poem written by Stephen Dunn, Rex Veeder, and Pat Skinner.
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"At Every Gas Station There Are Mechanics"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
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"Biography in the First Person"
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Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
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"Living in Someone Else's House"
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Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
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"Lovers"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
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"Traveling"
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Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
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"Palominos"
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Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
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"With Amy, Listening to the Forest"
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Description
Read by Stephen Dunn.
Citation
Lawder, Donald. "With Amy, Listening to the Forest." The Beloit Poetry Journal. 22.3 (Spring 1972): 30-31. Print.
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"Day and Night Handball"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
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"The Carpenter's Song"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Let's Say"
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Description
Differs from published version.
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Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
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"The Man Who Never Loses His Balance"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
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"Story of a Man Who Was Never Invited"
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Description
Published version bears the title "The Party to Which You Are Not Invited." Differs from published version.
Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Lines of Defense. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
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"For A., Who Would Like to Scream"
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Description
Published version bears the title "For A., Who Knows It's Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart." Differs from published version.
Citation
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
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"A Few Nights and Days"
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Description
Differs slightly from published version.
Citation
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
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"On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
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"Anatomy Lesson: A School for Boys"
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Description
Differs from published version.
Citation
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
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"Fable of the 20th Century"
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Description
Published version bears the title "Introduction to the 20th Century." Differs from published version.
Citation
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
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"Rewrite"
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Description
Differs from published version.
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Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Late Spring, the Blankets Gone"
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Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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"Those of Us Who Know the Same Secrets"
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Description
Published version bears the title "Those of Us Who Think We Know." Differs from published version.
Citation
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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