Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018

by Gerald Stern

Book Overview

For five 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" (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories in his poems, blending philosophical, wide-ranging intellect with boisterous wit.

Memory unites the poems in Blessed as We Were, which reach back through seven collections written over almost two decades. Stern explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324002336
• ISBN13: 9781324002338
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"