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In Beauty Bright: Poems
Gerald Stern
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Description for In Beauty Bright: Poems
Paperback. "The work of an American master."-World Literature Today Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 209 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
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 moving.
from "In Beauty Bright":
In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake’s
lily and though an angel he looked absurd
dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright store
wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping,
nor was it useless—you who ... Read more Show Less
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 moving.
from "In Beauty Bright":
In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake’s
lily and though an angel he looked absurd
dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright store
wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping,
nor was it useless—you who ... Read more Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393348941
SKU
V9780393348941
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Ref
99-44
About Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern (1925—2022), the author of nineteen volumes of poetry, was awarded the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among many other honors.
Reviews for In Beauty Bright: Poems
"[Stern's] style insinuates itself into your consciousness like a catchy tune, so that you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms, bopping from one to another, back and forth, like thought and language doing a jitterbug."
Frank Wilson "Vivid and imagistic ... brilliant." "Gerald Stern takes his place at the head of our table as our grand Mensch of poetry." ... Read more
Frank Wilson "Vivid and imagistic ... brilliant." "Gerald Stern takes his place at the head of our table as our grand Mensch of poetry." ... Read more