Last Blue - Poems

Following his National Book Award winner, This Time, Gerald Stern further explores history and memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world. The weight of history and the bouyance of memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world are some of Gerald Stern's ongoing themes in this new book. The poems in Last Blue range in tone from the joyously unrestrained to the quietly somber. A Stern poem can begin with the majestic cadences of an Old Testament psalm, turn on an almost invisible hinge, and bring into focus the smallest detail. Here is a radiant collection from an essential voice in American poetry.

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Stern, Stern Gerald
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2001
• EAN: 9780393321623
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32162-3
• No. of pages: 114
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 151 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets