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  • I.

    by Gerald Stern, Alicia Ostriker ...
    A masterful long poem from one of our great American poets.Gerald Stern’s long poem I. is an extraordinary and wild compilation of poetic modes, moods, and registers—meandering and focused, hallucinatory and concrete, deranged and deeply ecstatic. Inspired by the sight of a derelict synagogue on the Lower East Side, I. is an intrinsically New York poem, concerned with shifting structures of place ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divine Nothingness

    Poems

    by Gerald Stern ...
    From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In Beauty Bright

    Poems

    by Gerald Stern ...
    “The work of an American master.”—World Literature TodayThe 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Rose

    by Li-Young Lee ...
    Series series
    Table of ContentsI.EpistleThe GiftPersimmonsThe Weight Of SweetnessFrom BlossomsDreaming Of HairEarly In The MorningWaterFalling: The CodeNocturneMy IndigoIrisesEating AloneII.Always A RoseIII.Eating TogetherI Ask My Mother To SingAsh, Snow, Or MoonlightThe LifeThe WeepersBraidingRain DiaryMy Sleep... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Imagining the Jewish God

    by Leonard Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jonathan Boyarin, Zachary Braiterman, Laynie Browne, Michael Castro, James Chapson0, Alison Creighton1, Marcia Falk2, Norman Finkelstein3, Lewis Freedman4, Jeff Friedman5, Lenn Goodman6, Susan Handelman7, Michael Heller8, Jack Hirschman9, Leonard V. Kaplan0, Shaul Magid1, Michael Marmur2, David Novak3, Randi Rashkover4, Noam Reisner5, Jerome Rothenberg6, Jonathan Wyn Schofer7, Howard Schwartz8, Bill Sherman9, Benjamin Sommer0, Gerald Stern1, Rabbi Rebecca Alpert2, Martin Kavka3, Jay Michaelson4, Alicia Ostriker5, Kenneth Seeskin6 ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Odd Mercy

    by Gerald Stern ...
    "For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."—Library JournalThe centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Scotia Widows

    Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal

    by Gerald Stern ...
    On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second explosion took the lives of eleven rescue workers. For the miners’ surviving family members, the loss of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Galaxy Love

    Poems

    by Gerald Stern ...
    “Pure movement of mind, passion, knowledge.” —Juan Felipe HerreraGalaxy Love spans countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history, and mortality. In wistful, generous, and lively love poems and elegies, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern captures the passage of time, the joys of a sensual life, and remembrances of the past. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Death Watch

    A View from the Tenth Decade

    by Gerald Stern ...
    In Death Watch, the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate his own mortality. Characteristically audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic, Stern looks back at his life and forward in time to how his story will play out. Wrestling with his identity in Judaism, he explores how his name was uprooted ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Stealing History

    by Gerald Stern ...
    In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling pieces that constitute a kind of diary of a mind, Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical. Creating the immediacy of dailiness, he writes with entertaining engagement about what he’s reading, be it ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Save the Last Dance

    Poems

    by Gerald Stern ...
    The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal—yet always universal, and always surprising—poems, rich with humor and insight. Shorter lyric poems in the first two parts continue the satirical and often ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Blessed as We Were

    Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018

    by Gerald Stern ...
    **Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry CollectionAn illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern.**For five decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this “sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary” (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories ... Read more

    $12.99 USD