Other/Wise logs a journey of discovery. This second book of poems by Gregory Dunne begins with the poet’s early life in the United States and then tracks his voyage – both geographical and emotional – to Japan, where he has now lived for many years; the volume concludes with a series of clear-sighted and moving poems of family life in the author’s adopted homeland. Here are poems of friendship, marriage, family and vocation; here also are elegies for teachers, friends and parents that explore the dimensions of loss while remaining grounded in the unfolding present.

 

Cover image by Sarah Brayer, The Red Line, 2016. sarahbrayer.com

Gregory Dunne embraces love, attachment, and the passions, while recognizing how easily we all become entangled, even lost, in our relationships with others. Dunne’s gift is the ability to sit calmly with those knotted threads in our lives – the longing, the sensuousness – until the tension between unrequited desire and imperfect intimacy feels as natural and welcome as rain or tears. Other/Wise is an open-hearted journey of fatherhood, friendship, and faith – faith in the honest truths to be found in this life and celebrated in poetry. – Richard Jones, Author of Stranger on Earth

In Other/Wise, Gregory Dunne employs the profoundly loving vision of the backward gaze to recover, to recollect, and thereby to provide to us something of the many gifts of wisdom received during a well-lived lifetime with many precious others. – Scott Cairns, author of Anaphora

May 2019. Paperback. 84 pages. 8.5 x 5.5. ISBN 978-4-907359-27-0

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