The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern himself, and a ninety-year-old black preacher from the Midwest. In "Hot Dog," and throughout, Stern wrestles with the issues--hope, memory, faith--that have always occupied him.
The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkin...
Following his National Book Award winner, This Time, Gerald Stern further explores history and memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world. The weight of history and the bouyance of memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world are some of Gerald Stern's ongoing themes in this new book. The poems in Last Blue range in tone from the joyously unrestrained to the quietly somber. A Stern poem can begin with the majestic cadences of an Old Testament psalm, turn on an...
Following his National Book Award winner, This Time, Gerald Stern further explores history and memory, the casual miracles of relationship...
from "In Beauty Bright" In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake's lily and though an angel he looked absur dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright stor wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping nor was it useless--you who know it kno how useful it is--and how he would be dea in a minute if he were to lose it thoug how do you lose a lily
from "In Beauty Bright" In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake's lily and though an angel he looked absur dragging a lily out of a beauty-bri...
