In Beauty Bright: Poems 1st Edition

by Gerald Stern (Author)

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“Gerald Stern is the most expansively celebratory poet in years. He is akin to a natural force.”―Georgia Review

The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern’s previous work, move into an area of knowledge―even wisdom―that reflects a long life of writing, teaching, and activism. They are poems of grief and anger, but the music is delicate and moving.

from “In Beauty Bright”

In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake’s
lily and though an angel he looked absurd
dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright store
wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping,
nor was it useless―you who know it know
how useful it is―and how he would be dead
in a minute if he were to lose it though
how do you lose a lily?

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“[Stern’s] style insinuates itself into your consciousness like a catchy tune, so that you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms, bopping from one to another, back and forth, like thought and language doing a jitterbug.”
- Frank Wilson, Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

Gerald Stern, the author of nineteen poetry collections, has won the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Frost medal, and the Award of Merit (from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), among others. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, and New York City.

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Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (September 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780393086447
ISBN-13: 978-0393086447
ASIN: 0393086445
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.6 x 8.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 2 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,417,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6992 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Literature > American Literature
- #18880 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > United States
- #234864 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States

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One of our best at his worst

April 23, 2014

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This was tough to get through and it wasn't even long. I've long been a dedicated fan of Stern's poetry and, of course, still am, but this latest collection is just terrible. It just feels like he's got little left in the tank. The poems here have the patina of wordplay and magic and mystery which characterized Stern's previous work, but with rare exception, there's not much going on beneath that surface which resonates. With the exception of "Frogs," there aren't many poems here which I care to revisit.

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Anne E. Mcwilliams

July 22, 2014

Format: Hardcover

recommended reading

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