Everything Is Burning Poems [Paperback]

Gerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech.Sterns unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters.Crackles with . . . exuberance, impatience, and an apparently consuming need. Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery.