**An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern.** For over four 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" (
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
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- Book ID
- 110665423
- Publisher
- BOA Editions Ltd.
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 28 KB
- Series
- American Poets Continuum
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781880238509
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.
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Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; New Poems; Hair; Mirror Talk; Delusions of the Retina; Battleground; Loving Don Quixote; The Impossible Rescue; Betrayal; Houdini's Last Trick; Cygnet; The Old Country; The News Channel; Old Days; Writing to Jane Eyre; Ode to My Car; La