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Bread Without Sugar
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 1993
263 kr
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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Odd Mercy
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 1997
255 kr
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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 around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern himself, and a ninety-year-old black preacher from …
This Time
New and Selected Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 1999
431 kr
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"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 …
Last Blue
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2001
263 kr
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Following his National Book Award winner, This Time, Gerald Stern further explores history and memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world. The weight of history and the bouyance of memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his …
Everything Is Burning
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2006
238 kr
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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.
Save the Last Dance
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2009
295 kr
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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, …
In Beauty Bright
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2014
182 kr
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The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern’s previous work, move into an area of knowledge—even wisdom—that reflects a long life of writing, teaching, and activism. They are poems of grief and anger, but the music is delicate and …
Divine Nothingness
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2016
195 kr
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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 …
Galaxy Love
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2019
195 kr
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National Book Award winner Gerald Stern’s wistful and lively poems span countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history and mortality.
Blessed as We Were
Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018
Av Gerald Stern
Inbunden, 2020
310 kr
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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 …
Blessed as We Were
Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2023
205 kr
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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 …
Scotia Widows
Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal
Av Gerald Stern
E-bok, 2008
131 kr
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On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second …
Stealing History
Av Gerald Stern
E-bok, 2012
197 kr
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In 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. …
Death Watch
A View from the Tenth Decade
Av Gerald Stern
E-bok, 2016
207 kr
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Gerald Stern, National Book Award-winning poet, creates a powerful new prose book in his ninth decades, as he contemplates mortality. In his characteristic audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic style, Stern looks back at his life and forward to how he will end his days. Will he be …
Early Collected Poems
1965-1992
Av Gerald Stern
Inbunden, 2010
355 kr
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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 language for the overlooked, neglected, and unseen facets of human experience. Whether writing about modern poets, Hebrew prophets, death, war, or love, “Stern’s …
Galaxy Love
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Inbunden, 2017
261 kr
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The poems in this new volume by the winner of the National Book Award span countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history, and mortality. “Hamlet Naked” traverses Manhattan in the 1960s from a Shakespeare play on 47th Street to the cellar of a Ukrainian restaurant in the East …
American Sonnets
Poems
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2003
141 kr
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In his thirteenth collection, the 1998 National Book Award winner presents us with fifty-nine "Stern Sonnets," of twenty or so lines rather than the traditional fourteen. Using the events of his life as starting points, Gerald Stern deals with time and loss, with the dichotomy of light and …
What I Can't Bear Losing
Essays by Gerald Stern
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2009
167 kr
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Gerald Stern's poetry has been variously praised for its visionary quality, its scope and passion, but most especially for its wholehearted embrace of life. Stern's special manner of joie de vivre is immediately evident in his prose pieces as well. In this collection of personal essays, Stern …
Stealing History
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2012
184 kr
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In the tradition of essayists like Montaigne and Emerson, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling essays Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical. Creating the immediacy of dailiness, …
Death Watch
A View from the Tenth Decade
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2017
179 kr
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In Death Watch, the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate his own mortality. Characteristically audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic, Stern looks back at his life and forward in time to how his …
Preacher
A Poem
Av Gerald Stern
Häftad, 2007
120 kr
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“The Preacher’s a poem with polyphonic voices, enormous range, and many of Stern’s familiar icons: his animism, his city grit, his philosophical fragments, his irony and justice quest, his reaching for the strain of memory.”—Ira SadoffGerald Stern is the author of fourteen poetry books, including …
