Last Blue

Poems

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by Gerald Stern

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published May 2001, 112 pages, paper

ISBN 0393321622

The weight of history and the buoyancy of memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world are some of Gerald Stern's ongoing themes in this new book. The poems in Last Blue range in tone from the joyously unrestrained to the quietly somber. A Stern poem can begin with the majestic cadences of an Old Testament psalm, turn on an almost invisible hinge, and bring into focus the smallest detail. Here is a radiant collection from an essential voice in American poetry.