"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long / for me to get lenient? What does it mean one life / only?' " -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gerald Stern's achievement is immense. In this beautiful gathering . . . one encounters a poet who praises and mourns in turn and even at once." -- Grace Schulman, The Nation "Stern is one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it." -- C. K. Williams

Author: Gerald Stern
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/01/1999
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780393319095


Award: 1999 Boston Book Review Nominee - Poetry


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 53

About the Author
Stern, Gerald: - Gerald Stern is the author of nineteen volumes of poetry. He has been awarded the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Robert Frost Medal, among many other honors. He lives in New York City.