Stephen Dunn Biography See Work 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 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,