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Death watch : a view from the tenth decade.
- Title
- Death watch : a view from the tenth decade.
- Author
- Stern, Gerald, 1925-2022
- Publication
- San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 17-577 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 212 pages : illustrations; 18 cm
- Summary
- "In Death Watch, 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. Stern 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 readingthe work of W.G. Sebald, Blaise Cendrars, and Louis-Ferdinand Célineand how memory is always at the heart of literary accomplishment and what creates the staying power of great literature. Death Watch 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." -- Amazon.com
- Alternative Title
- View from the tenth decade
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Call Number
- JFC 17-577
- ISBN
- 1595347844
- 9781595347848
- OCLC
- 951453101
- Author
- Stern, Gerald, 1925-2022, author.
- Title
- Death watch : a view from the tenth decade.
- Publisher
- San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFC 17-577