Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Stern is one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it." C. K. Williams
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"Gerald Stern comes on like a crazy river. . . . Stern's world is that reckless, his ideas that large, his images that passionate, his heart that determined." Dionisio D. Martinez
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"[I] turn to Stern's poetry because he's so wholehearted in his embrace of the paradoxical nature of life, because of the ebullient way his poems praise the foolishness and grace of our mortal dance." Organica
Synopsis
Finalist for the Book Prize.
Synopsis
Finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize.
About the Author
Gerald Stern is the author of the National Book Award-winning This Time, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize-winning Early Selected Poems, and other books. He has also been awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among many other honors. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.