Award-winning poet Stephen Daingerfield Dunn shows us Santa Fe through his eyes with humor, wit, and human insight. He combines his poetry with beautiful photographs of the natural beauty and majesty of one of North America's most ancient cities, taken by his friend Richard Bettinger.A wonderful journey for any armchair traveler, filled with colorful native imagery.

The Ultimate Western Collection surveys the imaginative territories of the American West and its borderlands through adventure tale, historical romance, frontier realism, detective fiction, humor, and the hard-edged Western yarn. Its capacious selection moves from mythic landscapes and encounters at the edge of settlement to cattle drives, mining camps, military outposts, and contested communities. Canonical frontier narratives sit beside popular serial fiction and lesser-known regional vi...

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly gathers more than 175 Western novels and short stories into a capacious archive of frontier writing. Spanning adventure romance, outlaw tale, mining-camp sketch, cattle-drive narrative, historical fiction, and psychologically charged wilderness drama, the volume charts the genre's movement from nineteenth-century local-color storytelling to the popular Western's modern forms. Classic frontier legends, tales of gunfighters and scouts, and narratives of settlem...

THE CALL OF THE WILD WEST - Ultimate Western Collection: 175+ Novels & Short Stories in One Volume is a monumental anthology that captures the essence and allure of the American frontier. Encompassing a vast range of literary styles from adventurous narratives to poignant tales of survival, this collection offers an expansive look at the mythos of the Wild West. The stories traverse themes of rugged individualism, the conflict between civilization and nature, and the indomitable human spir...

Embark on a high-seas adventure with 'PIRATE NOVELS: 50+ Adventure Classics, Treasure Hunt Tales & Maritime Novels,' a robust collection that captures the daring spirit and magnetic allure of pirate lore. This anthology offers a stunning array of narrative styles and themes, from thrilling treasure hunts and dramatic sea battles to introspective tales of moral ambiguity and redemption. Readers will traverse the seas with multifaceted characters and experience vivid landscapes that transpor...

“A wonderful example of the poet’s ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts.”—Elizabeth Lund, Washington PostIn his sixteenth collection, Stephen Dunn continues to bring his imagination and intelligence to what Wallace Stevens calls “the problems of the normal,” which of course pervade most of our lives. The poem “Don’t Do That” opens with the lines: “It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything / hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red / alo...

“[Stephen Dunn] has taken his place among our major, indispensable poets.”—Miami HeraldIn his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the absurdities of modern life, expectations derailed, the lived life juxtaposed to the imagined life, and the defenses we don to make do. The poems in Lines of Defense ...

"Between Angels affirms what we are capable of in our best moments—grace, tenderness, love—while acknowledging that the human heart can be merciless. It's a book of great breadth."--Gregory Djanikian, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Here is the mature work of a poet who has always managed to delight—but who now demands something more of us. He asks us to enter the twenty-first century with open eyes: attentive to the past, eager for the future, naming what we love."--Judith Kitchen, Georgia Review

Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as “indispensable.”What Goes On displays the evolving style and sensibility of a major award-winning poet, and a traceable growth that has blossomed into a provocative confrontation with questions of consciousness and existence. Stephen Dunn’s poems probe life’s big questions without ever losing sight of the significance of the mundane.

Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W. W. Norton in 1993, now out of print. In Walking Light, Dunn discusses the relationship between art and sport, the role of imagination in writing poetry, and the necessity for surprise and discovery when writing a poem. Humorous, intelligent and accessible, Walking Light is a book that will appeal to writers, readers, and...

“A sly, companionable collection” (New York Times Book Review) that offers indispensable truths from a master of contemporary poetry.In this meditative and incisive collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems reflect on desire, restraint, and the roles we play in an ever-evolving soc...