Praise for Stephen Dunn

"A poet who time and again achieves that most difficult magic of the ordinary. [Stephen Dunn] can take you by the hand and lead you along a street you may have passed through every day without much notice, and suddenly, at this new angle, the ordinary reveals in itself all the splendor and terror of existence."
- Rita Dove, Washington Post

"The art lies in hiding the art, Horace tells us, and Stephen Dunn has proven himself a master of concealment. His honesty would not be so forceful were it not for his discrete formality; his poems would not be so strikingly naked were they not so carefully dressed."
- Billy Collins

"Stephen Dunn has a gift for aphorism, but his most startling ability is the way he maps out the subtle, mordant shifts of adult morality."
- New York Times Book Review

"Dunn's poetry is the poetry of experience, of humor, of irony, of daily life, of love-and of the most elegant verbal sparring with the self."
- Alicia Ostriker

"There's a deep and reliable honesty that drives [Dunn's] poems...That the poems manage this kind of transmission of (no other word for it) truth, and make that truth so much a delight to hear-well, that's what Stephen Dunn has been doing all his writing life. That's why his poems have been, and remain, indispensable."
- Robert Wrigley