“A sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary” (Edward Hirsch), Gerald Stern is an essential and unwavering presence in American poetry. Blessed as We Were distills the poet’s characteristic bardic voice through the persistent presence of memory, whether buoyant or weighty, explored from Last Blue (2002) through Galaxy Love (2017).
In a selection from these seven acclaimed volumes, along with new poems that combine the metaphysical with the domestic, Stern reminds us why he is “one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it” (C. K. Williams).
From “Knucklebones”
and here’s to Charlemagne and here’s to Trotsky
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
and the little man on the wedding cake
and the cake itself and
stuffing your mouth with sugar,
and here’s to arthritic fingers and here’s to knucklebones.
This book title, Blessed as We Were (Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018), ISBN: 9781324002338, by Gerald Stern, published by W. W. Norton & Company (January 21, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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