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Insane devotion : on the writing of Gerald Stern

Title

Insane devotion : on the writing of Gerald Stern / edited by Mihaela Moscaliuc ; foreword by Philip Levine.

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Additional Authors

Moscaliuc, Mihaela, 1972-

Description

xxii, 218 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Gerald Stern has been a significant presence and an impassioned and idiosyncratic voice in twentieth and twenty-first-century American poetry. Insane Devotion is a retrospective of his career and features fourteen writers, critics, and poets examining the themes, stylistic traits, and craft of a poet who has shaped and inspired American verse for generations. The essays and interviews in Insane Devotion paint a broad picture of a man made whole by the influence of the written word. They touch on the contentious and nuanced stance of Judaism in the breadth of Stern's work and explore Stern's capacious memory and his use of personal history to illuminate our common humanity. What is revealed is a poet of complexity and heart, often tender, often outraged. As Philip Levine writes in his lyrical foreword to the volume, Stern is both sweet and spiky, "a born teacher who can teach me to see the universe in an acorn and hear the music of the lost in an empty Pepsi can.""--
""This retrospective of Gerald Stern's career features fourteen essays and interviews by writers, critics, and poets examining the themes, stylistic traits, and craft of a poet who has shaped and inspired American verse for generations"--Provided by publisher"--

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Call Number

JFE 16-6978

ISBN

LCCN

2015039522

OCLC

923796024

Title

Insane devotion : on the writing of Gerald Stern / edited by Mihaela Moscaliuc ; foreword by Philip Levine.

Publisher

San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, [2016]

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and indexes.

Added Author

Moscaliuc, Mihaela, 1972- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-6978