What I Can't Bear Losing - by Gerald Stern (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>Engaging coming-of-age essays from one of America's most-beloved poets</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 <i>joie de vivre</i> 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, <i><b>What I Can't Bear Losing</b></i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"National Book Award-winning poet Stern brings the same renowned voice to prose, from a life that began in 1925 in what he recalls as the 'Calvinist' Pittsburgh of his immigrant Russian parents." -- <b><i>Kirkus Review</b></i> <p/>"Stern offers ravishingly poetic inquiries into everything from the Jewish Sabbath to the tree of life to love, posing crucial questions of forgiveness and charity. Not only did Stern become a poet against all odds, he has remained a warrior, a seeker, and a writer of conscience." -- <i><b>Booklist</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gerald Stern's</b> recent books of poetry are <i>Divine Nothingness</i>, <i>In Beauty Bright, Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992, Save the Last Dance, This Time: New and Selected Poems</i>, which won the National Book Award, <i>Odd Mercy</i>, and <i>Bread without Sugar</i>. His honors include the Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Review, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 2005 Stern received the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry. For many years a teacher at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Stern lives in Lambertville, NJ.
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