In Beauty Bright: Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: Gerald Stern ISBN: 9780393089752
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: September 3, 2012
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Gerald Stern
ISBN: 9780393089752
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: September 3, 2012
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

“The work of an American master.”—World Literature Today

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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“The work of an American master.”—World Literature Today

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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