In Beauty Bright: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393348941)

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?

Author: Gerald Stern
ISBN-10: 0393348946
ISBN-13: 9780393348941
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2014
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.30d