Emerging Writers
The Emerging Writers Series showcases graduate students of the NYU Creative Writing Program. Readings feature established writers as special guests.
Gerald Stern is the author of 15 books of poetry, including This Time: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 1998 National Book Award. His most recent book is Save the Last Dance.
Gerald Stern is the author of 15 books of poetry, including This Time: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 1998 National Book Award. His most recent book is Save the Last Dance.
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 | Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925. His recent
books of
poetry are Save the Last Dance: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2008); Everything
Is Burning (2005); American Sonnets (2002); Last Blue: Poems (2000);
This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book
Award; Odd Mercy (1995); and Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the
Paterson Poetry Prize. His other books include Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (1990); Two Long Poems (1990); Lovesick (1987); Paradise Poems (1984); The Red Coal (1981), which received the Melville Caine Award from the Poetry Society of America; Lucky Life, the 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Rejoicings (1973). |
Apocalypse Copyright by Gerald Stern Of all sixty of us I am the only one who went to the four corners though I don't say it out of pride but more like a type of regret, and I did it because there was no one I truly believed in though once when I climbed the hill in Skye and arrived at the rough tables I saw the only other elder who was a vegetarian--in Scotland-- and visited Orwell and rode a small motorcycle to get from place to place; and I immediately stopped eating fish and meat and lived on soups; and we wrote each other in the middle and late fifties though one day I got a letter from his daughter that he had died in an accident; he was I'm sure of it, an angel who flew in midair with one eternal gospel to proclaim to those inhabiting the earth and every nation; and now that I go through my papers every day I search and search for his letters but to my shame I have even forgotten his name, that messenger who came to me with tablespoons of blue lentils. |
