I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

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.