What I Can't Bear Losing: Essays by Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern's poetry has been variously praised for its visionary quality, its scope and passion, but most especially for its wholehearted embrace of life. Stern's special manner of joie de vivre is immediately evident in his prose pieces as well. In this collection of personal essays, Stern speaks to the reader on subjects closest to his heart - family, justice, Jewishness, ecstasy, loss, and love, as well as Andy Warhol, Paris, and getting shot in the neck. He ranges from passionate literary discussions to buoyant anecdotes about borrowing William Carlos Williams' hat from the writer's historic home. With seven new pieces, What I Can't Bear Losing celebrates a writer passionately engaged with life in America after World War II and gives a glimpse of the poetic processes of one of today's most beloved literary voices.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 09/22/2009
ISBN: 9781595340542
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.58w x 0.94d

Review Citations: Choice 04/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 287