Everything Is Burning: Poems
by:
Gerald Stern (author)
"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."—Ploughshares, Editor's ChoiceGerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark...
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"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."—Ploughshares, Editor's ChoiceGerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393329162 (039332916X)
Publish date: December 18th 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
There are a couple excellent poems in here - "The Law," for example, and "Cigars" - both for the most part I think they lacked spark. There's also a bit too much "I" in here, not the all-encompassing "I" of Whitman, but the "I" of Gerald Stern and what he's having for lunch. I really like Stern, but...
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