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?
| ISBN: | 9780393348941 |
| Publication date: | 29th July 2014 |
| Author: | Gerald Stern |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 125 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |