
The Preacher
A Poem
Gerald Stern(Author)
Sarabande Books, Incorporated (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 18. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-932511-54-3 (ISBN)
Description
"The Preacher's a poem with polyphonic voices, enormous range, and many of Stern's familiar icons: his animism, his city grit, his philosophical fragments, his irony and justice quest, his reaching for the strain of memory."-Ira Sadoff
Gerald Stern is the author of fourteen poetry books, including This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the 1998 National Book Award. He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fifteen years, and he is the recipient of many awards, including the Lamont Poetry Prize, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the National Jewish Book Award for poetry.
Gerald Stern is the author of fourteen poetry books, including This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the 1998 National Book Award. He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fifteen years, and he is the recipient of many awards, including the Lamont Poetry Prize, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the National Jewish Book Award for poetry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Louisville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932511-54-3 (9781932511543)
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Stern is the author of fourteen books, including This Time, which won the 1998 National Book Award. He is the recipient of the Lamont Poetry Prize, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award, and the 2005 National Jewish Book Award. In 2006, Stern was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.