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Save the Last Dance
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 redemptive vision of his last collection, Everything Is Burning, while never failing to carve out new emotional territory. In the third part, a long poem called "The Preacher," Stern takes the book of Ecclesiastes as a starting point for a meditation on loss, futility, and emptiness, represented here by the concept of a "hole" that resurfaces throughout.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Dec 1st, 2009
- Pages: 92
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 0.30in - 0.25lb
- EAN: 9780393337310
- 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 writes with a gruff, seen-it-all knowingness and with the distillation, leaps, and pivots acquired over a long life of poetic practice.-- "Booklist"
With a deft though sometimes mischievous hand, [Stern] crafts scenes that are at once exotic and familiar.-- "Library Journal"
[Stern's] strongest, strangest poems.-- "Publishers Weekly"