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Earthly Virtues—
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The Story
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 means to lack the knowledge and power we need to make our lives as consequential as we may want them to be. On the other, they reach out to widen the circle of our concern, suggesting a kinship of the local with the distant, enlarging the passing moment with history and prophecy. Wherever the poems turn, they prove spacious enough to take us with them, and they leave us grateful for the journey.
Author: Carl Dennis
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.05w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780143138495
About the Author
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.
Author: Carl Dennis
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.05w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780143138495
About the Author
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.
Description
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 means to lack the knowledge and power we need to make our lives as consequential as we may want them to be. On the other, they reach out to widen the circle of our concern, suggesting a kinship of the local with the distant, enlarging the passing moment with history and prophecy. Wherever the poems turn, they prove spacious enough to take us with them, and they leave us grateful for the journey.
Author: Carl Dennis
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.05w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780143138495
About the Author
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.
Author: Carl Dennis
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.05w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780143138495
About the Author
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.
