Galaxy Love: Poems

by Gerald Stern

Book Overview

The poems in this new volume by the winner of the National Book Award span countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history, and mortality. "Hamlet Naked" traverses Manhattan in the 1960s from a Shakespeare play on 47th Street to the cellar of a Ukrainian restaurant in the East Village; "Thieves and Murderers" encompasses musings of the medieval French poet Fran ois Villon and Dwight Eisenhower; "Orson" recounts a meeting of the poet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393254917
• ISBN13: 9780393254914
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"