Gerald 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. His poems have an unerring, comic, relentless tone, never didactic, always surprising and rich in metaphor.
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Gerald Stern, who won the National Book Award for poetry in 1998 with “This Time: New and Selected Poems,” has died at 97. https://t.co/oVlWRs54QR
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From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (2009) edited by Camille T. Dungy, @freeheeled15 and @jeffreyThomson, with a Foreword by Gerald Stern. #blackhistorymonth #newvoices #emergingpoets @Fishouse https://t.co/wqcAkXGUxp
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