Gerald Stern

Stealing History

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Produktbeschreibung

The diary of a brilliant mind and a cultural observer unlike any other in our time

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trinity University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781595341419
• ISBN-10: 1595341412
• Artikelnr.: 35532729

Autorenporträt

Gerald Stern's recent books of poetry are Divine Nothingness, In Beauty Bright, Early Collected Poems: 19651992, Save the Last Dance, This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award, Odd Mercy, and Bread without Sugar. His honors include the Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Review, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 2005 Stern received the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry. For many years a teacher at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Stern lives in Lambertville, NJ.

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1. Park Bench
Chinese Poet
Bob Summers 2. Dragonfly
Insects
Famous Deaths p. 5 3. Chance Writing
Meister Eckhart
Jewish Saints
Ahmadinejad p. 11 4. Lamb
Seders
Elijah
the Last Supper
Gospel of Mark p. 13 5. Christ
” The Lamb p. 19 6. Diary of the Mind
Santa Maria de Popola
Campo de Fiori p. 24 7. Amalfi Coast
Dogs p. 25 8. Tyler Art School
Louise Fishman
Boris Blai p. 28 9. Rome
Pope
Jews p. 31 10. Fanny Howe’s The Winter Sun
God” p. 33 11. Christians” in Haiti
Haiti p. 34 12. Fanny Howe
Education of the Poet p. 36 13. Straddling
Publishing Late p. 37 14. My Mother and Father p. 39 15. The Pennsylvania RR in Pittsburgh p. 40 16. Back pain
Rome
Athletes
Joe Louis
Billy Conn p. 41 17. Jack Gilbert p. 44 18. Haiti
the Long History p. 45 19. Stan Barret p. 46 20. Comedy
Leipzig
Germany
Bach
Terry Gross
MOVE
My Humor 21. Rugby and Business
Quaker Interview
Sports p. 59 22. Papacy
Deicide p. 61 23. Work for Government During the War
Movies in Indiana p. 63 24. Learning Poetry
Living Cheap
Workshops
Iowa p. 65 25. Dragonflies and Being p. 70 26. Robin and Uncle Harry p. 70 27. Lucille’s death p. 72 28. Robin
Crises
Pianist at Zaks
Kenneth Gabura p. 75 29. Redbud
Late Spring
50 more pages
Marie Ponsot p. 80 30. Alana Rose p. 84 31. 26 Vandam
William Merwin
John Gardner
lost girl p. 85 32. Kamps
Signs Over Gates p. 91 33. Dragonflies p. 91 34. My Big Mouth
Tourettes
Karis
Birth Mothers p. 93 35. Trip to New York With Poet-Potter p. 95 36. James Schuyler p. 97 37. Dragonflies
Dog Eat Dog p. 99 38. Medal at Academy of Arts
Pearlstein
Levine p. 100 39. Meister Eckhart p. 103 40. Larry Levis
Caravaggio p. 105 41. Angela Hazley’s Death p. 110 42. Haiti
Naomi Klein
Noam Chomsky
Aristide
AIDS p. 114 43. New Zealand Poet
Broadsides
Creeley p. 119 44. Demystification
Gilgamesh
Spinoza p. 120 45. Hank Evans
Remorse
Gilgamesh p. 124 46. Etheridge Knight p. 127 47. McChrystal
Pruning Hooks
Chris Hedges
Israel p. 135 48. Charlie I p. 141 49. Israel p. 142 50. Nut-Death
Grandfather
Transit Cop p. 144 51. Marie Ponsot p. 148 52. Again Haiti p. 148 53. Charlie and Elvira II p. 148 54. McChrystal p. 149 55. Robert Bernat p. 150 56. Montpellier
Carmen
Bill Basnight p. 153 57. Diane Freund p. 156 58. Atlantic City p. 157 59. Charlie III p. 157 60. Libby p. 158 61. Bialystock
1906 p. 161 62. Poland I p. 163 63. Poland II p. 164 64. Neighbors I p.166 65. Lev Going p. 171 66. Lev Not There p. 172 67. Neighbors II p. 174 68. Neighbors III p. 176 69. Neighbors IV
John Cage p. 181 70. Atlantic City p. 186 71. Childhood in New York
p 187 72. Henry James on NY p. 189 73. Henry Miller
Air Conditioned Nightmare 191 74. Miller
New York p. 193 75. Simone de Beauvoir
New York p. 195 76. Atlantic City p. 199 77. Turkish Restaurant in Paris p. 199 78. Paul McCartney p. 200 79. Yom Kippur Pear p. 201 80. Betty Cray
p. 203 81. Hole in Forehead p. 204 82. Port Authority Bus Terminal p. 210