Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"Crackles with . . . exuberance, impatience, and an apparently consuming need." San Francisco Chronicle
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"Stern's unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters." Philadelphia Inquirer
Synopsis
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. His poems have an unerring, comic, relentless tone, never didactic, always surprising and rich in metaphor.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."--, Editor's Choice
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.