Dune Lines

What is an ethical life? An erotic life? A life underpinned by awe? By grief? What is it to recognize oneself as comprised of others, human and not? What hasn’t this poet lavished his “gorgeous attention” on? Gathered from forty years of published books, the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Forrest Gander’s Dune Lines offers such poignance— of tenderness, tragedy, phenomenological inquiry, and the almost sustaining particularities of love. His poems are worldly in scale, but intimate in scope, fusing geological and human time. Dune Lines contains a wide-ranging selection of many of Gander’s best-loved poems, revealing how he has charted his utterly distinctive course in contemporary poetry.