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Books by Carl Dennis
  | | Night School (Penguin Poets) by Carl Dennis Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-313235-6, ISBN: 0-14-313235-0 "A masterful new collection of poetry from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize The poems in Carl Dennis’s thirteenth collection, Night School, are informed by an engagement with a world not fully accessible to the light of day, a world that can only be known with help from the imagination, whether we focus on ourselves, on people close at hand, or on the larger society. Only if we imagine alternatives to our pres ..." |
 | | Another Reason (Poets, Penguin) by Carl Dennis Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-312522-8, ISBN: 0-14-312522-2 "From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly PrizeThe poems in Carl Dennis’s new collection Another Reason assume that our efforts to reason with ourselves and with others about what matters to us are necessary to escape the purely private point of view, to provide the houses we live in with doors and windows. These poems enact a drama of attempted persuasion, as the poet confers with himself, with intimates, and with strang ..." |
 | | New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 (Poets, Penguin) by Carl Dennis Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Penguin Books Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-14-200083-0, ISBN: 0-14-200083-3 "The New York Times has called Carl Dennis’s poetry “wise, original, and deeply moving.” A poet with a growing audience of admirers, Dennis writes in a clear, classically simple language that is both personal and universal. Making use of a rich variety of genres—advice, meditation, elegy, and prophecy—his poems take unexpected turns as they explore their subjects, catching the reader off balance in a way that is liberating. This new anth ..." |
 | | Practical Gods(1st Edition) (Poets, Penguin) by Carl Dennis, Gunter Grass Paperback, 77 Pages, Published 2001 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-100230-9, ISBN: 0-14-100230-1 "Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Practical Gods is the eighth collection by Carl Dennis, a critically acclaimed poet and recent winner of one of the most prestigious poetry awards, the Ruth Lilly Prize. Carl Dennis has won acclaim for "wise, original, and often deeply moving" poems that "ease the reader out of accustomed modes of seeing and perceiving" (The New York Times). Many of the poems in this new book involve an attem ..." |
 | | Poetry as Persuasion (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft Ser.) by Carl Dennis Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2248-3, ISBN: 0-8203-2248-2 "Focusing on the relation of the poet to the reader, Carl Dennis proposes that poems are acts of persuasion and that the strength of a poem's speaker is the key to winning the reader's sympathetic attention. Dennis identifies the qualities of passion, discrimination, and inclusiveness as essential in creating a compelling speaker. This emphasis on character leads to fresh discussions of point of view, irony, myth, and genre. Each subject ..." |
 | | Unknown Friends (Poets, Penguin) by Carl Dennis Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303875-7, ISBN: 0-14-303875-3 "From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize Carl Dennis has become one of the most important American poets writing today. Unknown Friends, his tenth book, is about separation and connection, about actual friends we can never know fully and friends never met who are summoned into existence through the efforts of an imagination that insists on dialogue. While accepting our ignorance as inevitable, the poems work to ex ..." |
 | | Ranking the Wishes(1st Edition) (Penguin Poets) by Carl Dennis Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1997 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-058779-1, ISBN: 0-14-058779-9 "In his seventh book, Carl Dennis explores the ways in which our wishes - those in our power to fulfill at any moment and those that have no chance of ever being realized - define who we are. While some of the poems view wishing as a failure to do justice to the world we have, others regard it as a recognition that no present, however rich, can satisfy the imagination, and suggest that one of the functions of poetry is to keep significan ..." |
 | | Callings (Poets, Penguin) by Carl Dennis Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2010 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311838-1, ISBN: 0-14-311838-2 "From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize This new collection by acclaimed poet Carl Dennis is about vocation in the largest sense, the work that we believe gives our lives meaning, and the challenges that come in defining such work and in doing it well. The poems approach their subject from a variety of perspectives: a calling may involve a compromise with limitations, or be an expression of individual purpose; if ..." |
 | | Stickeen(Reprint) by John Muir, Malcolm Margolin, Carl Dennis Buell Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1990 by Heyday Books ISBN-13: 978-0-930588-48-9, ISBN: 0-930588-48-7 "An illustrated edition of the well-loved tale in which world-famous naturalist John Muir recounts how he and a dog named Stickeen struggled to cross an Alaskan glacier during an ice storm. An exhilarating story that has become an American classic.Published in conjunction with Rick Heide." |
 | | Practical Gods by Carl Dennis Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-4177-0443-9, ISBN: 1-4177-0443-8 |
 | | New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 by Carl Dennis Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-4177-0451-4, ISBN: 1-4177-0451-9 |
 | | Night School by Carl Dennis 112 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-525-50433-7, ISBN: 0-525-50433-8 "A masterful new collection of poetry from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize The poems in Carl Dennis’s thirteenth collection are informed by an engagement with a world not fully accessible to the light of day, a ..." |
 | | Terry Richardson 82 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Terry Richardson by Carl Dennis Paperback, 106 Pages, Published 2015 by Emereo Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4888-7895-4, ISBN: 1-4888-7895-1 "The Real Terry Richardson. This book is your ultimate resource for Terry Richardson. Here you will find the most up-to-date 82 Success Facts, Information, and much more." |
 | | Terry Richardson 82 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Terry Richardson by Carl Dennis 106 Pages, Published 2015 by Emereo Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4888-2895-9, ISBN: 1-4888-2895-4 "The Real Terry Richardson. This book is your ultimate resource for Terry Richardson. Here you will find the most up-to-date 82 Success Facts, Information, and much more." |
 | | Another Reason by Carl Dennis 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-698-14272-5, ISBN: 0-698-14272-1 "Carl Dennis. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York ... Thank you for buying an authorized editionof this book andfor complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, ... [Poems. Selections] Another reason / Carl Dennis. pages cm.—(Penguin Poets) ISBN 9780143125228 ISBN 9780698142725 ( eBook) I. Title." |
 | | Humphrey the Wayward Whale(1st Edition) by Ernest Callenbach, Christine Leefeldt, Carl Dennis Buell Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 1986 by Heyday ISBN-13: 978-0-930588-23-6, ISBN: 0-930588-23-1 "Humphrey the Wayward Whale Recounts how a young humpback whale entered the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and swam seventy miles inland before being led back to the sea by people concerned for his welfare. Full description" |
 | | Callings by Carl Dennis 96 Pages, Published 2010 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-101-46236-2, ISBN: 1-101-46236-1 "From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize This new collection by acclaimed poet Carl Dennis is about vocation in the largest sense, the work that we believe gives our lives meaning, and the challenges that come in ..." |
 | | New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 by Carl Dennis 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-4406-5033-8, ISBN: 1-4406-5033-0 "Photograph. The background's blurred, so I can't be certain If this showboat is docked on a river or a lake, But the clothes of the dancers on deck Make clear it's summer in the early forties, And the long shadows suggest it's almost sundown." |
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