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The 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry
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Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company)

Columbia University President George Rupp (left) presents Stephen Dunn with the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Winning Work

Different Hours

By

Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn, in his startling and graceful eleventh collection often set in southern New Jersey where he makes his home, continues to find his subjects in the dailiness of life, at the same time expanding his vision to a darker emotional landscape. The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrent of Dunn's new work.

Dunn explores the "different hours," not only of one's life, but also of the larger historical and philosophical life beyond the personal, and brilliantly succeeds in getting at and plumbing our elusive realities.

(From the book jacket)

Copyright: 2000, W.W. Norton & Company

Biography

Stephen Dunn is the author of ten previous collections of poetry, including Loosestrife: New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994; Landscape at the End of the Century; and Between Angels. Dunn's honors include the Academy Award for Literature, the James Wright Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has taught poetry and creative writing and held residencies at Wartburg College, Wichita State University, Columbia University, University of Washington, Syracuse University, Southwest Minnesota State College, Princeton University, and University of Michigan.

Dunn is currently Trustee Fellow and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and lives in Port Republic, New Jersey.

 

 

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Poetry in 2001:

Bruce Smith

Sydney Lea

The Jury

Mary Karr(chair )

writer, professor of literature and creative writing

Anthony Hecht*

poet

Jonathan Holden

poet, distinguished professor of English

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