Böcker av 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 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).

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 literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery" (Ploughshares, Editor's Choice).from "The Red Coal"   The coal has taken over, the red coal   is burning between us and we are at its mercy-   as if a power is finally dominating   the two of us; as if we're huddled up   watching the black smoke and the ashes;   as if knowledge is what we needed and now   we have that knowledge. Now we have that knowledge.

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

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.

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

"Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary."-Edward Hirsch

"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.

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