Stephen Dunn Quotes


A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.


Citations

Dunn, Stephen. Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.

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Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn
  • Born: June 24, 1939
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Professor Poet

Stephen Dunn is an American poet and educator. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other awards are three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship. A collection of essays about Dunn's poetry was published in 2013.