Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner
Different Hours
by Stephen Dunn
Summary
Dunn meditates on middle age, marriage, and the small moral compromises that accumulate over a life. His voice is plainspoken and reflective, favoring clarity and wry self-examination over ornament or obscurity. The collection offers a quietly philosophical accounting of the ordinary, treating domestic experience as a fit subject for serious thought.
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Historical Context & Significance
Dunn was praised for a lucid style that avoided the dense obscurities of much academic poetry.