Divine Nothingness Poems [Paperback]

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 Sterns poems sing in praise of the natural world, and in outrage of whatever is antihuman.The best work of his career . . . Sterns free versederived from William Carlos Williamsrepudiates old rules while not quite creating its own: his incidents take on their own life, chaotic yet restrained, broken but passionate.Stern, at 89, is as robust and forthright as ever, occupying the page with insouciant skill, wry humor, and flashing passion. His long-lined, long poems move with a jazzy tension, pushing the limits and keeping time, rippling and sliding like piano riffs, while his sonnets quake.From the National Book Awardwinning author of