Bøger af Gerald Stern

"Gerald Stern's long poem "I." is an extraordinary and wild compilation of poetic modes, moods, and registers-meandering and focused, hallucinatory and concrete, deranged and deeply ecstatic. Inspired by the sight of a derelict synagogue on the Lower East Side, "I." is an intrinsically New York poem, concerned with shifting structures of place and identity in the face of time and rapid change. Though first written in the late aughts, Stern's brazen, mischievous politicality and blasphemous spirituality, refracted through the biblical book and prophetic character of Isaiah, feel particularly relevant to the present moment. Intertextual, critical, at times jubilant and derisive, "I." brims with Stern's idiosyncratic mix of high intellect and chthonic populism. The book features Stern's original introduction, as well as a foreword and afterword written by poet-luminaries Ross Gay and Alicia Ostriker"--

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 ageing 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).

Engaging coming-of-age essays from one of Americäs most-beloved poets

A collection of poems which praise and mourn in turn and even at once.

In his thirteenth book of poetry, Stern takes you through his own pysche. Brief and pensive.

Finalist 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.

Galaxy Love showcases the voice of a beloved and acclaimed poet, celebrating the passions and rhythms of life.

Americäs foremost living poet sifts through life and the inevitability of the end

From the National Book Award-winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.

"Gerald Stern is the most expansively celebratory poet in years. He is akin to a natural force."-Georgia Review

The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).

"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."-Ploughshares, Editor's Choice

"For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."-Library Journal

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

A time now almost lost-America and Europe of the 1940s and 1950s-indelibly recalled in prose pieces by a celebrated poet.

"Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."-Booklist