Stephen Dunn - November 5, 1975

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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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Introduction
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by Lois Shelton
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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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Differs slightly 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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"Coming Home, Garden State Parkway"
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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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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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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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Differs slightly 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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"Visiting the City Again"
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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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Unpublished collaborative poem written by Stephen Dunn, Rex Veeder, and Pat Skinner.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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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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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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Read by Stephen Dunn.

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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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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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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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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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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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Published version bears the title "The Party to Which You Are Not Invited." Differs from published version.
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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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Published version bears the title "For A., Who Knows It's Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart." 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 Fraud's Litany"
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Unpublished.
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"A Few Nights and Days"
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Differs slightly from published version.
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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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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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Differs from published version.
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Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
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"In the Mirror"
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Uncollected.
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"Fable of the 20th Century"
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Published version bears the title "Introduction to the 20th Century." Differs from published version.
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Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
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"Rewrite"
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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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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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Published version bears the title "Those of Us Who Think We Know." 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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Stephen Dunn
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Lois Shelton
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Stephen Dunn
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Lois Shelton
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