{"title":"Gerald Stern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGerald Stern\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of human experience through poetry that intertwines the spiritual with the everyday. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eBlessed as We Were\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDivine Nothingness\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers into a contemplative journey where language embraces both mystery and clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in Arts \u0026amp; Culture, Stern’s verse resonates with emotional depth and intellectual insight. His poetry captures moments of love, loss, and wonder, inviting readers to reflect on the delicate intersections of memory and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blessed-as-we-were-by-gerald-stern-9781324064510","title":"Blessed as We Were","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor five decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this \"sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary\" (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories in his poems, blending philosophical, wide-ranging intellect with boisterous wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMemory unites the poems in \u003cem\u003eBlessed as We Were\u003c\/em\u003e, which reach back through seven collections written over almost two decades. Stern explores casual miracles, relationships, and the natural world in \u003cem\u003eLast Blue\u003c\/em\u003e (2000); offers a satirical and redemptive vision in \u003cem\u003eEverything Is Burning\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) and \u003cem\u003eSave the Last Dance\u003c\/em\u003e (2008); meditates on the metamorphosis of aging in \u003cem\u003eIn Beauty Bright\u003c\/em\u003e (2012); and captures the sensual joys of life—even when they are far in the past—in the wistful love poems and elegies of \u003cem\u003eGalaxy Love\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). The volume concludes with over two dozen new poems that combine the metaphysical with the domestic, from the passage of time and the cost of love to the profound banality of cardboard and its uses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith his characteristic exuberant, oracular voice animating every line, Stern reminds us why he is one of the great American poets, one who has long \"been telling us that the best way to live is not so much for poetry, but through poetry\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423863062764,"sku":"9781324064510","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781324064510.jpg?v=1774769776"},{"product_id":"divine-nothingness-by-gerald-stern-9780393352863","title":"Divine Nothingness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivine Nothingness\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditative reflection on the poet's past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side of the Delaware River in Lambertville, Gerald Stern explores questions about who and why we are, locating nothingness in the divine and the divine in nothingness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom \"What Brings Me Here?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHere I am again and what brings me here\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eto the same wooden bench\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003epreaching to the city of Lambertville\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003esurrounded by mayapples?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor who in the hell is going to lie down with whom in the hell,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eeither inside or outside?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470463353068,"sku":"9780393352863","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393352863-divine-nothingness.jpg?v=1775219510"},{"product_id":"galaxy-love-by-gerald-stern-9780393357516","title":"Galaxy Love","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGalaxy Love\u003c\/em\u003e spans countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history, and mortality. In wistful, generous, and lively love poems and elegies, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern captures the passage of time, the joys of a sensual life, and remembrances of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596458803436,"sku":"9780393357516","price":28.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ef9c0340d0ee130604384ec374f3b020.jpg?v=1777928919"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/gerald-stern.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}