Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992

ISBN: 0393076660

Author: Stern, Gerald

Condition: New

Sterns unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters.-Philadelphia Inquirer Early Collected Poems gathers the poems from the first six books of Gerald Sterns body of work. A master poet, Stern has sought new language for the overlooked, neglected, and unseen facets of human experience. Whether writing about modern poets, Hebrew prophets, death, war, or love, Sterns literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery (Ploughshares, Editors Choice).from The Red CoalThe coal has taken over, the red coalis burning between us and we are at its mercy-as if a power is finally dominatingthe two of us; as if were huddled upwatching the black smoke and the ashes;as if knowledge is what we needed and nowwe have that knowledge. Now we have that knowledge.