What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life - Couverture rigide

Stern, Gerald

 
9780393058185: What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393058182 ISBN 13 : 9780393058185
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2003

Synopsis

In a series of freewheeling rambles that combine autobiography and meditation, Gerald Stern explores significant and representative events in his life. He describes the dour Sundays of Calvinist Pittsburgh, punctuated by his parents' weekly battles. We have glimpses of him as a wilderness camp counselor, and later, having been declared 4-F, as a postwar draftee (a stint that includes jail). In the 1950s he savors the romance of Paris. Stern also tells of being shot in Newark―the bullet is still in his neck to prove it. Other scenes include being mistaken for Allen Ginsberg and encounters with Andy Warhol. And in the ineffably tender "The Ring," Stern recalls his mother's second engagement ring, "when they were a bit richer, if a bit broader and a bit more weary." As in his poetry, Stern discovers his subject as he goes along, relishing that discovery and expanding on it. There is no other voice like Gerald Stern's, funny and reflective and opinionated―and forgiving.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gerald Stern (1925―2022), the author of nineteen volumes of poetry, was awarded the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among many other honors.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393058182
ISBN 13 
9780393058185
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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