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Divine Nothingness: Poems
Gerald Stern
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Description for Divine Nothingness: Poems
Paperback. From the National Book Award-winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
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 and the divine in nothingness.
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 and the divine in nothingness.
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
147g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393352863
SKU
V9780393352863
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About Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern, the author of nineteen poetry collections, has won the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Frost medal, and the Award of Merit (from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), among others. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, and New York City.
Reviews for Divine Nothingness: Poems
Gerald Stern has made an immense contribution to American poetry. His poems are not only great poems, memorable ones, but ones that get into your heart and stay there. Their lyrical ecstasies take you up for that moment so that your vision is changed, you are changed. The voice is intimate, someone unafraid to be imperfect. Gerald Stern's poems sing in praise of the natural world, and in outrage of whatever is antihuman.
Toi Derricote The best work of his career ... Stern's free verse-derived from William Carlos Williams-repudiates old rules while not quite creating its own: his incidents take on their own life, chaotic yet restrained, broken but passionate.
Publishers Weekly Stern, at 89, is as robust and forthright as ever, occupying the page with insouciant skill, wry humor, and flashing passion. His long-lined, long poems move with a jazzy tension, pushing the limits and keeping time, rippling and sliding like piano riffs, while his sonnets quake.
Donna Seaman - Booklist
Toi Derricote The best work of his career ... Stern's free verse-derived from William Carlos Williams-repudiates old rules while not quite creating its own: his incidents take on their own life, chaotic yet restrained, broken but passionate.
Publishers Weekly Stern, at 89, is as robust and forthright as ever, occupying the page with insouciant skill, wry humor, and flashing passion. His long-lined, long poems move with a jazzy tension, pushing the limits and keeping time, rippling and sliding like piano riffs, while his sonnets quake.
Donna Seaman - Booklist