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Lucky Life
by Gerald Stern- ISBN: 9780887482076 (0887482074)
- Language: english
- Awards: James Laughlin Award (1977), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Poetry (1977)
- Release date: August 1, 1997
- Author: Gerald Stern
- Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
- Genres: poetry
- Format: paperback, 88 pages
About The Book
This Lamont Prize-winning book offers all the joy, sadness, humor, beauty, and song that typically characterizes the work of the well-respected but unfortunately lesser-known American poet Gerald Stern. Stern, who has been writing since the 1960s, made a name for himself in 1977 with the publication of Lucky Life, now his most renowned collection.
In Lucky Life Stern takes the reader on a journey, pausing everywhere from the streets of New York to post-Holocaust Germany to the soil of a lobelia plant. In an intimate and mature voice, he shares with us the lineage of his ancestors; his personal relationships; and bits of art, music, history — even the neighbors he chats with on the beach. His style is Whitmanesque, urging us to «listen a little for the spongy world» after it has rained, and reminding us how to «understand the power of maples.»
Reading Stern’s poetry is like listening to the words of a loving grandparent who has been through his or her share of painful experiences but has come to terms with them through wisdom gained from a long life. Stern offers several reasons for surviving in this often senseless world, but one of the most outstanding is found in the title poem: «Lucky you can be purified over and over again. / Lucky there is the same cleanliness for everyone.»
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