Earthly Virtues
$30.93
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
7 July 2026
Summary
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis explores the expansiveness and complexity of universal virtues within the realm of the everyday in this thought-provoking new collection.
Though most of the virtues that interest Carl Dennis in Earthly Virtues have traditional names, they are provided with contexts that give them fresh implications, moving us in two directions at once, toward a recognition of limits and a recognition of possibilities. On one hand, they confront what it …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143138495 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143138499 |
| Author: | Carl Dennis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
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Critics Review
“There is a fresh kind of transcendence here, one that has almost forgotten about disappointment … these poems reveal a gentle empathy with a wide embrace.” –LitHub
About The Author
Carl Dennis
Carl Dennis is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Earthborn (2022). A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize, he taught for many years in the English Department of the State University of New York, and in the Warren Wilson Writing Program in North Carolina. He lives in Buffalo, New York.
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