Books by Gerald Stern
This Time
by Gerald Stern
Stern’s poems explode off the page with expressive gestures (weeping and hollering are common activities, for example). Yet I trust Stern’s feelings, meaning I believe he feels them. I go to poems to be moved; Stern’s poems move me very, very much. I often weep and howl when I read them. And I like that.
Interviews where books by Gerald Stern were recommended
The best books on How to Write Poetry, recommended by Kathleen J Graber
According to Graber, poetry demands that readers and thinkers slow down; just as a poem emerges through careful attention, it demands and recreates that kind of attention within the reader
