Unknown Friends (Penguin Poets)

Carl Dennis has become one of the most important American poets writing today. Unknown Friends, his tenth book, is about separation and connection, about actual friends we can never know fully and friends never met who are summoned into existence through the efforts of an imagination that insists on dialogue. While accepting our ignorance as inevitable, the poems work to expand the notion of what it means to be part of a community larger than any we can comprehend, both a community given to us by history and one outside of history through which the world of experience is nurtured and sustained.

• Another Reason (Penguin Poets)
• Practical Gods (Penguin Poets)
• New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 (Penguin Poets)
• Callings (Penguin Poets)
• Ranking the Wishes (Penguin Poets)
• Night School (Penguin Poets)
• Poetry as Persuasion (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft Ser.)
• Recent Changes in the Vernacular
• Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Pitt Poetry Series)