Save the Last Dance: Poems

Stern, Gerald

ISBN 10: 0393337316 / ISBN 13: 9780393337310

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers IN-152105

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In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal yet always universal, and always surprising poems, rich with humor and insight. Shorter lyric poems in the first two parts continue the satirical and often redemptive vision of his last collection, Everything Is Burning, while never failing to carve out new emotional territory. In the third part, a long poem called "The Preacher," Stern takes the book of Ecclesiastes as a starting point for a meditation on loss, futility, and emptiness, represented here by the concept of a "hole" that resurfaces throughout.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Gerald Stern (1925-2022), the author of nineteen volumes of poetry, was awarded the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among many other honors.

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Titel: Save the Last Dance: Poems
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: paperback
Zustand: New