American Sonnets
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| Author(s) | Gerald Stern |
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| Subtitle | Poems |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
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| Fifty-nine “Stern sonnets” of twenty or so lines from the 1998 National Book Award winner. This stunning collection moves from autobiography to the visionary in surges of memory and language that draw the reader from one poem to the next. “I was taken over by the writing of these poems,” Stern says. | |
Fifty-nine “Stern sonnets” of twenty or so lines from the 1998 National Book Award winner. This stunning collection moves from autobiography to the visionary in surges of memory and language that draw the reader from one poem to the next. “I was taken over by the writing of these poems,” Stern says.
