Larkin himself said somewhere that deprivation for him was “what daffodils were for Wordsworth”. I don’t know about the deprivation, but he turned me into a new “moneyed class in verse.” After reading Stephan Dunn, a few days back, I was just thinking that why I can’t get a poem book by a poet who isContinue reading “The Whitsun Wedding: by Philip Larkin”
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Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Stephen Dunn
“The reverse side also has a reversed side” -A JAPANESE PROVERB Stephen Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this 2001 collection, Different Hours. And this different hour, fell into my lap in a diverging hour, last year, when Sun rays were diverging from the horizon, near the sunset time, after a black patch of gloomy cloud justContinue reading “Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Stephen Dunn”