{"product_id":"death-watch-gerald-stern-9781595347848","title":"Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade","description":"In \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeath Watch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate his own mortality. Characteristically audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic, Stern looks back at his life and forward in time to how his story will play out. Wrestling with his identity in Judaism, he explores how his name was uprooted from its origins, as so much of his life will be willfully disrupted from the expectations of his parents and the norms of a predictable path. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStern recounts his life, itself \"a grand digression,\" which takes him from Pittsburgh, to the Army, to Paris on the GI Bill, and back to the United States, where he immerses himself in the literary culture around him. Stern's early and traumatic loss of his older sister provides the occasion to imagine what her life might have been, and he revels in his past love affairs, the many women beloved in his life. He recollects books that occupy his recent reading--the work of W.G. Sebald, Blaise Cendrars, and Louis-Ferdinand C line--and how memory is always at the heart of literary accomplishment and what creates the staying power of great literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeath Watch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is as an account of a beloved poet's final journey; a vivid, passionate, and, at times, whimsical look at the gamble of living life to its fullest, choosing the life of a poet, philosopher, prophet, lover, radical, and perpetual troublemaker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald Stern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1595347844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781595347848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trinity University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Gerald Stern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938527281407,"sku":"9781595347848","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b7c05d60-f745-447d-b35f-145d45aab3b9.jpg?v=1681436212","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/death-watch-gerald-stern-9781595347848","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}