Read Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018

Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018

Gerald Stern

4.9/5 (33565 ratings)

Description:“A sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary” (Edward Hirsch), Gerald Stern is an essential and unwavering presence in American poetry. Blessed as We Were distills the poet’s characteristic bardic voice through the persistent presence of memory, whether buoyant or weighty, explored from Last Blue (2002) through Galaxy Love (2017).In a selection from these seven acclaimed volumes, along with new poems that combine the metaphysical with the domestic, Stern reminds us why he 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). From “Knucklebones”and here’s to Charlemagne and here’s to Trotsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and the little man on the wedding cakeand the cake itself andstuffing your mouth with sugar,and here’s to arthritic fingers and here’s to knucklebones.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018. To get started finding Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1324002344

Description: “A sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary” (Edward Hirsch), Gerald Stern is an essential and unwavering presence in American poetry. Blessed as We Were distills the poet’s characteristic bardic voice through the persistent presence of memory, whether buoyant or weighty, explored from Last Blue (2002) through Galaxy Love (2017).In a selection from these seven acclaimed volumes, along with new poems that combine the metaphysical with the domestic, Stern reminds us why he 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). From “Knucklebones”and here’s to Charlemagne and here’s to Trotsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and the little man on the wedding cakeand the cake itself andstuffing your mouth with sugar,and here’s to arthritic fingers and here’s to knucklebones.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018. To get started finding Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018

Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018

More Books

The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won

The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won

What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life

What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life

This Time: New and Selected Poems

This Time: New and Selected Poems

Conversations With Contemporary American Writers: Saul Bellow, I.B. Singer, Joyce Carol Oates, David Madden, Barry Beckham, Josephine Miles, Gerald Stern, Stephen Dunn, Etheridge Knight, Marilynne Robinson, William Stafford

Conversations With Contemporary American Writers: Saul Bellow, I.B. Singer, Joyce Carol Oates, David Madden, Barry Beckham, Josephine Miles, Gerald Stern, Stephen Dunn, Etheridge Knight, Marilynne Robinson, William Stafford

Stealing History

Stealing History

Poems for Jerry: A Tribute to Gerald Stern

Poems for Jerry: A Tribute to Gerald Stern

Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern

Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern

Lucky Life (Classic Contemporary)

Lucky Life (Classic Contemporary)

American Sonnets: Poems

American Sonnets: Poems