Overview :Early Collected Poems gathers the poems from the first six books of Gerald Stern's body of work. A master poet, Stern has sought new languag... Read More
Overview :Gerald Stern's poetry has been variously praised for its visionary quality, its scope and passion, but most especially for its wholehearted ... Read More
Overview :A masterful long poem from one of our great American poets.Gerald Stern's long poem I. is an extraordinary and wild compilation of poetic mo... Read More
Overview :In his thirteenth collection, the 1998 National Book Award winner presents us with fifty-nine "Stern Sonnets," of twenty or so lines rather ... Read More
Overview :The author says in his introduction: "These aphorisms, petite narratives, whatever they are, were written over a period of two weeks in the ... Read More
Overview :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 mortal... Read More
Overview :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 arou... Read More
Overview :from "In Beauty Bright": In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake's lily and though an angel he looked absurddragging a lily out of a bea... Read More
Overview :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 s... Read More
Overview :In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal yet always universal, and always surprising p... Read More
Overview :In the tradition of essayists like Montaigne and Emerson, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness on 85 years of life. ... Read More