Gerald Stern

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Gerald Stern (born February 22, 1925 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American poet , storyteller and essayist .

Life

Stern is the son of Polish and Ukrainian immigrants. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh , Columbia University and the University of Paris . He has been publishing poetry since he was in his early twenties. Stern has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop , Temple University , New England College , where he co-founded the Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry , and Drew University . In 1995 he retired.

Stern has two children. He is married to the poet Anne-Marie Macari. The couple live in Lambert , New Jersey , a small town on the Delaware River .

reception

Stern received numerous awards for his work. Due to the open form of his poems and their often long lines, critics see him in the tradition of a Walt Whitman and praise Stern's ability to touch and change the reader with his poems. Regardless of their historical awareness, his poems are always optimistic; morally strong, yet humorous. His work relates to various forms of Jewish mysticism but also to modern Judaism on the American east coast.

“Gerald Stern has made an immense contribution to American poetry. His poems are not only great poems, memorable ones, but ones that get into your heart and stay there. Their lyrical ecstasies take you up for that moment so that your vision is changed, you are changed. The voice is intimate, someone unafraid to be imperfect. Gerald Stern's poems sing in praise of the natural world, and in outrage of whatever is antihuman. "

“Gerald Stern made an immense contribution to American poetry. His poems are not only great and memorable, but those that go into your heart and stay there. Their lyrical ecstasies lift you up for a moment so that your point of view changes, you change. Your voice is familiar to someone who isn't afraid of being imperfect. Gerald Stern's poems sing the praises of the natural world and in anger over everything inhuman. "

- Toi Derricotte : Academy of American Poets

“Gerald Stern's poems are astonishing; they have profound suppleness, tenderness, and power. When we finish one of these American sonnets, we laugh or cry out loud, incredulous. Each one seems to begin in pure freedom, then the last line, like a magnet, turns out to have been pulling the whole poem toward itself with the momentum of history and eros. The work is both intimate and inclusive, and the implied reader seems to be unusually present to the speaker's spirit! The poems are alive with passion and with ironic energy, an irony so in love with the earth it seems to need a new name - milk and honey irony - and yet the tragic knowledge of the world here is hard as iron. This is the great art of a fierce mourning ecstatic, whose genius nourishes us. "

“Gerald Stern's poems are amazing; You have deep suppleness, tenderness and strength. When we've read one of these American sonnets, we laugh or cry in disbelief. Each poem seems to begin in complete freedom, then it becomes apparent that the last line - like a magnet - has drawn the whole poem to itself with the sweep of history and eros. The work is both intimate and inclusive, the implied reader seems to be aware of the speaker's mind in an unfamiliar way! The poems are alive with passion and ironic energy, an irony so in love with the earth that it seems to need a new name - a milk-and-honey irony - and yet the tragic knowledge of the world is hard here like iron. That is the great art of a violent, weeping ecstasy, the genius of which nourishes us. "

- Griffin Poetry Prize 2003

Awards (selection)

Works

  • Rejoicings , 1973
  • Lucky Life , 1977
  • The Red Coal , 1981
  • Paradise Poems , 1984
  • Lovesick , 1987
  • Two Long Poems , 1990
  • Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems , 1990
  • Bread Without Sugar , 1992
  • Odd Mercy , 1995
  • This Time: New and Selected Poems , 1998
  • Last Blue: Poems , 2000
  • American Sonnets , 2002
  • What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes From a Life , 2003 (essays)
  • Not Good After All , 2004 (aphorisms and short stories)
  • Everything Is Burning , 2005
  • Save the Last Dance: Poems , 2008
  • A Guest at the World's Table , 2009 (essays)
  • Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992 , 2010
  • Stealing History , 2012
  • In Beauty Bright: Poems , 2012
  • Divine Nothingness: Poems , 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerald Stern. In: poets.org. October 6, 2015, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ Griffin Poetry Prize: Gerald Stern. In: griffinpoetryprize.com. March 19, 2004, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Gerald Stern. In: gf.org. Accessed July 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists. In: pulitzer.org. Accessed July 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ This Time: New and Selected Poems. In: nationalbook.org. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
  6. ^ New Jersey poet laureate . In: loc.gov. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .
  7. ^ Griffin Poetry Prize: Gerald Stern. In: griffinpoetryprize.com. March 19, 2004, accessed July 23, 2018 .
  8. ↑ NJBA Winners. In: jewishbookcouncil.org. Accessed September 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Chancellors. In: poets.org. March 17, 2015, accessed on July 23, 2018 .
  10. ^ Neustadt Finalists (1970 – Present). In: neustadtprize.org. Accessed July 23, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed July 23, 2018 .
  12. ^ Library of Congress Awards Gerald Stern The Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. In: loc.gov. October 23, 2012, accessed on July 23, 2018 .
  13. ^ Frost Medalists - Poetry Society of America. In: poetrysociety.org. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania