Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

Norton & Company (New York NY) 1989. W. Dunn completed his B.

Stephen Dunn (born 1939) is an American poet. Among his other awards are three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships Guggenheim Fellowship and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry.