Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner
The Flowering Stone
by George Dillon
Summary
The book gathers reflective love lyrics and short meditations on time, beauty, and loss in a careful, traditionally measured line. Dillon favors closed forms and a polished, slightly elegiac tone reminiscent of his older friend Edna St. Vincent Millay. His poems resist the experimentalism of the period in favor of compact, song-like clarity.
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Historical Context & Significance
Dillon was one of the youngest winners of the prize and was a close associate of Edna St. Vincent Millay.