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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132406451X
• ISBN13: 9781324064510
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"