In Beauty Bright

In Beauty Bright

by Gerald Stern
In Beauty Bright

In Beauty Bright

by Gerald Stern

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Overview

“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?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393348941
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 04/07/2014
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Part I February 22 19

Against Whistling 20

Stoop 21

Broken Pipes 23

Aliens 24

Like Fools 26

The Grossing 27

Dumb 29

Rapture 30

Casals 31

Israel Grossman 32

I Who Lifted a Car 33

Gracehóper 34

Donkey 35

Garnish 36

Eleanor 37

Leaves 39

Sugar 40

Two Graces 41

Spring 44

Angel 45

Sinai 46

Domestic 47

I Caused His Death 48

Dream IV 49

Zikel 50

26 Vandam 51

The Two Pyrenees 52

Lupe 53

Yellow Moon 54

Frogs 55

In Beauty Bright 56

Part II Journey 59

Kafeteria 60

Books 61

Goat 62

Stem's Cigars with Sholem Aleichem 63

Magnolia 64

Blue Intact 65

Died in the Mills 66

Rosenblatt 67

Norman Riding 68

June Through September 69

Iberia 70

Independence Day 71

The Name 73

Broken Glass 74

The Trick Mansion 75

Max Factor 76

Soll Ihr Gornisht Helfen 77

Voltage 78

For D. 80

Thoreau's Metaphor 81

Slow to Learn 82

Hyena 83

Rage 84

A Hole 85

Too Late 86

The Farm 87

Love 88

Nostalgia 89

For Beauty's Sake 90

The Farewell 91

Part III Nietzsche 95

San Jose 1985 97

Sleeping with Birds 98

Immigrants 99

My Libby 100

Eastside 101

86th Birthday at MacDowell 102

Traveling Gages 103

Box 104

Effigies 105

Angel of Death 106

Plaster Pig 107

Apt 5 FWI 108

Counting 109

Art 110

Apt. 5 FWII 111

Creeley 112

Orangey 113

The Lost Mountain 115

The Beginnings 116

Day of Grief 118

Why Anger Like That? 119

Droit de Faim 121

1946 123

Bio III 124

Lowness 125

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