I. Stern Gerald
I. Stern Gerald A masterful long poem from one of our great American poets.Gerald Stern's long poem I. Inspired by the sight of a derelict synagogue on the Lower East Side, I. is an extraordinary and…
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I. Stern Gerald
A masterful long poem from one of our great American poets.Gerald Stern's long poem I. Inspired by the sight of a derelict synagogue on the Lower East Side, I. is an extraordinary and wild compilation of poetic modes, moods, and registers--meandering and focused, hallucinatory and concrete, deranged and deeply ecstatic.
Though first written in the late aughts, Stern's brazen, mischievous politicality and blasphemous spirituality, refracted through the biblical book and prophetic character of Isaiah, feel particularly relevant to the present moment. is an intrinsically New York poem, concerned with shifting structures of place and identity in the face of time and rapid change. Intertextual, critical, at times jubilant and derisive, I.
brims with Stern's idiosyncratic mix of high intellect and chthonic populism.The book features