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Early Collected Poems gathers the poems from the first six books of Gerald Stern’s 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, “Stern’s literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery” (Ploughshares, Editor’s Choice).

from “The Red Coal”
The coal has taken over, the red coal

is burning between us and we are at its mercy—
as if a power is finally dominating
the two of us; as if we’re huddled up

watching the black smoke and the ashes;
as if knowledge is what we needed and now
we have that knowledge. Now we have that knowledge.

Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992

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Early Collected Poems gathers the poems from the first six books of Gerald Stern’s body of work. A master poet,... Read more

    Publisher: WW Norton & Co
    Publication Date: 10/09/2010
    ISBN13: 9780393076660, 978-0393076660
    ISBN10: 0393076660

    Number of Pages: 576

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    Early Collected Poems gathers the poems from the first six books of Gerald Stern’s 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, “Stern’s literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery” (Ploughshares, Editor’s Choice).

    from “The Red Coal”
    The coal has taken over, the red coal

    is burning between us and we are at its mercy—
    as if a power is finally dominating
    the two of us; as if we’re huddled up

    watching the black smoke and the ashes;
    as if knowledge is what we needed and now
    we have that knowledge. Now we have that knowledge.

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