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In Beauty Bright: Poems
The 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 such it was like Blake's
lily and though an angel he looked absurd
dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright store
wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping,
nor was it useless--you who know it know
how useful it is--and how he would be dead
in a minute if he were to lose it though
how do you lose a lily?
from In Beauty Bright:
In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake's
lily and though an angel he looked absurd
dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright store
wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping,
nor was it useless--you who know it know
how useful it is--and how he would be dead
in a minute if he were to lose it though
how do you lose a lily?
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Apr 7th, 2014
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.50in - 0.30in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9780393348941
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
Stern, Gerald: - 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.
Praise for this book
[Stern s] style insinuates itself into your consciousness like a catchy tune, so that you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms, bopping from one to another, back and forth, like thought and language doing a jitterbug. --Frank Wilson"
[Stern's] style insinuates itself into your consciousness like a catchy tune, so that you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms, bopping from one to another, back and forth, like thought and language doing a jitterbug. --Frank Wilson
Gerald Stern takes his place at the head of our table as our grand Mensch of poetry. "
Vivid and imagistic . . . brilliant.
Vivid and imagistic . . . brilliant. "