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Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9780393324969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thirteenth collection by the National Book Award-winning author includes fifty-nine "Stern Sonnets" that consist of an average of twenty lines rather than the traditional fourteen and follow such themes as time and loss, the dichotomy of light and darkness, and the possibility of joy. Reprint.
Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780393319095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long / for me to get lenient? What does it mean one life / only?' " -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gerald Stern's achievement is immense. In this beautiful gathering . . . one encounters a poet who praises and mourns in turn and even at once." -- Grace Schulman, The Nation "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
Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-06-22
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0393076660
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Stern's unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters."--Philadelphia Inquirer
Author: Gerald M. Stern
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-05-06
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0307388492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won. One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue.
Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2012-01-16
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1595341161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling pieces that constitute a kind of diary of a mind, Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical. Creating the immediacy of dailiness, he writes with entertaining engagement about what he’s reading, be it Spinoza, Maimonides, John Cage, Etheridge Knight, James Schuyler, or Lucille Clifton, and then he seamlessly turns to memories of his student years in Europe on the GI Bill, or his political and social action. Unexpected anecdotes abound. He hilariously recounts the evening Bill Murray bit his arm and tells about singing together with Paul McCartney. Interwoven with his formidable recollections are passionate discussions of lifelong obsessions: his conflicted identity as a secular Jew opposed to Israel’s Palestinian policy; the idea of neighbors in various forms — from the women of Gee’s Bend who together made beautiful quilts to the inhabitants of Jedwabne, who on a single day in 1941 slaughtered 300 Jews; and issues of justice.
Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 0393066126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle). 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 "hole" that resurfaces throughout.
Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-01-21
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1324002344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern. For five decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this “sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary” (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories in his poems, blending philosophical, wide-ranging intellect with boisterous wit. Memory unites the poems in Blessed as We Were, which reach back through seven collections written over almost two decades. Stern explores casual miracles, relationships, and the natural world in Last Blue (2000); offers a satirical and redemptive vision in Everything Is Burning (2005) and Save the Last Dance (2008); meditates on the metamorphosis of aging in In Beauty Bright (2012); and captures the sensual joys of life—even when they are far in the past—in the wistful love poems and elegies of Galaxy Love (2017). The volume concludes with over two dozen new poems that combine the metaphysical with the domestic, from the passage of time and the cost of love to the profound banality of cardboard and its uses. With his characteristic exuberant, oracular voice animating every line, Stern reminds us why he is one of the great American poets, one who has long “been telling us that the best way to live is not so much for poetry, but through poetry” (New York Times Book Review).
Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1993-04
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780393310108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of poems including "The Bull-Roarer," "The Founder," "One Gift," "Aspiring to Music," "Those Things," and "I Would Call it Derangement"
Author: Gerald Stern
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sixth edition in the Quarternote Chapbook series by chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
