| Everything Is Burning: Poems Contributor(s): Stern, Gerald (Author) |
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ISBN: 039332916X ISBN-13: 9780393329162 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: "Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."--"Ploughshares," Editor's Choice Gerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.54" W x 8.22" (0.31 lbs) 98 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech. His poems have an unerring, comic, relentless tone, never didactic, always surprising and rich in metaphor. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stern, Gerald: - Gerald Stern is the author of nineteen volumes of poetry. He has been awarded the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Robert Frost Medal, among many other honors. He lives in New York City. |