Everything Is Burning

Poems

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by Gerald Stern

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published June 2005, 96 pages, cloth

ISBN 0393060551

n his fourteenth collection, Gerald Stern gives us sharp, focused, political - occasionally outrageous - poems that delve deep into their subjects and transform reality. As in previous collections, Stern uses his personal history as a source for his literary songs, but the poems in Everything Is Burning are more ruthless, more honest, in their lack of self-pity and full realization of possibility.