Gerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech.
Gerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark langu...
In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal yet always universal, and always surprising poems, rich with humor and insight. Shorter lyric poems in the first two parts continue the satirical and often redemptive vision of his last collection, Everything Is Burning, while never failing to carve out new emotional territory. In the third part, a long poem called "The Preacher," Stern takes the book of Ecclesiastes as a starting point for a meditation on loss, futility, and emptiness, represented here by the concept of a...
In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal yet always universal, and always surprising...
"It isn't often you come across poetry that makes you want to turn to the stranger next to you on the bus, grab him by the collar, and say, 'You have to read this ' Stern's encompassing embrace allows us to step into his delirium and experience both." Deborah Garrison (The New Yorker) No es frecuente encontrarse con poesia que haga que quieras volverte hacia un desconocido en el autobus, agarrarlo por la solapa y decirle: "Tienes que leer esto." La profundidad del abrazo poetico de Stern nos permite sumergirnos tanto en su delirio como en su sabiduria. Deborah Garrison (The New Yorker)"
"It isn't often you come across poetry that makes you want to turn to the stranger next to you on the bus, grab him by the collar, and say, 'You have ...
Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet's past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side of the Delaware River in Lambertville, Gerald Stern explores questions about who and why we are, locating nothingness in the divine and the divine in nothingness. From "What Brings Me Here?" Here I am again and what brings me her to the same wooden benc preaching to the city of Lambertvill surrounded by mayapples For who in the hell is going to lie down with whom in the hell either inside or outside
Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet's past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortali...
