Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn
Reading Date: Wednesday, November 5, 1975
- Introduction
- "Poem for People Who Are Understandably Too Busy to Read Poetry"
- "Transitions"
- "Coming Home, Garden State Parkway"
- "Small Town: The Friendly"
- "Small Town: The Cycle"
- "Truck Stop: Minnesota"
- "Visiting the City Again"
- "Hands Full of Dangerous Red Berries"
- "At Every Gas Station There Are Mechanics"
- "Biography in the First Person"
- "Living in Someone Else's House"
- "Lovers"
- "Traveling"
- "Palominos"
- "With Amy, Listening to the Forest"
- "Day and Night Handball"
- "The Carpenter's Song"
- "Let's Say"
- "The Man Who Never Loses His Balance"
- "Story of a Man Who Was Never Invited"
- "For A., Who Would Like to Scream"
- "The Fraud's Litany"
- "A Few Nights and Days"
- "On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers"
- "Anatomy Lesson: A School for Boys"
- "In the Mirror"
- "Fable of the 20th Century"
- "Rewrite"
- "Late Spring, the Blankets Gone"
- "Those of Us Who Know the Same Secrets"
Introduction-12454
by Lois Shelton
"Poem for People Who Are Understandably Too Busy to Read Poetry"-12455
Uncollected.
"Transitions"-12456
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Coming Home, Garden State Parkway"-12457
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Small Town: The Friendly"-12458
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Small Town: The Cycle" -12459
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Truck Stop: Minnesota"-12460
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Visiting the City Again"-12461
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Hands Full of Dangerous Red Berries"-12462
Unpublished collaborative poem written by Stephen Dunn, Rex Veeder, and Pat Skinner.
"At Every Gas Station There Are Mechanics"-12463
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
"Biography in the First Person" -12464
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
"Living in Someone Else's House"-12465
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
"Lovers" -12466
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
"Traveling"-12467
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
"Palominos"-12468
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
"With Amy, Listening to the Forest"-12469
By Donald Lawder; read by Stephen Dunn.
Annotation:
Lawder, Donald. "With Amy, Listening to the Forest." The Beloit Poetry Journal. 22.3 (Spring 1972): 30-31. Print.
"Day and Night Handball"-12470
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
"The Carpenter's Song"-12471
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Let's Say"-12472
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
"The Man Who Never Loses His Balance"-12473
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
"Story of a Man Who Was Never Invited"-12474
Published version bears the title "The Party to Which You Are Not Invited." Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. Lines of Defense. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
"For A., Who Would Like to Scream"-12475
Published version bears the title "For A., Who Knows It's Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart." Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
"The Fraud's Litany"-12476
Unpublished.
"A Few Nights and Days"-12477
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
"On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers"-12478
Dunn, Stephen. Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
"Anatomy Lesson: A School for Boys"-12479
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
"In the Mirror"-12480
Uncollected.
"Fable of the 20th Century"-12481
Published version bears the title "Introduction to the 20th Century." Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. A Circus of Needs. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
"Rewrite"-12482
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Late Spring, the Blankets Gone"-12483
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
"Those of Us Who Know the Same Secrets"-12484
Published version bears the title "Those of Us Who Think We Know." Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Dunn, Stephen. Full of Lust and Good Usage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976.
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Stephen Dunn reads primarily from Looking for Holes in the Ceiling: Poems (1974), Full of Lust and Good Usage (1976), and A Circus of Needs (1978).


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