Stealing History

by Gerald Stern

Book Overview

In eighty-four short, intermingling essays, Gerald Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical. Creating the immediacy of dailiness, he writes about what he's reading at the moment, be it Spinoza or John Cage, Maimonides or Lucille Clifton, and then seamlessly turns to memories of his student years in Europe on the G.I. Bill, or early family life in Pittsburgh, or his political and social activism.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595341412
• ISBN13: 9781595341419
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Trinity University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"