Stephen Dunn Biography See Work Winter 1991 Update By Stephen Dunn POETRY / Winter 1991 Regardless By Stephen Dunn Once, my father took me to the Rockaways during a hurricaneto see how the ocean was behaving, POETRY / Spring 1983 The Landscape By Stephen Dunn We knew about the ocean: sharks and moods and pearls. Flood waters in Brigantine. POETRY / Summer 1988 Dancing With God By Stephen Dunn At first the surpriseof being singled out,the dance floor crowdedand me not looking my best,a too-often-worn dressand the man with mea budding casualtyof one repetition too much. POETRY / Summer 1988 Leaving the Polite Party By Stephen Dunn This time the leaving felt especially good as if I’d movedtoward some clean elemental selfishness