Lovesick: Poems - Softcover

Stern, Gerald

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ISBN 10: 0060550716 ISBN 13: 9780060550714

Publisher: Perennial Library, 1987

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Poems deal with lovesickness, loss, the imagination, music, religion, meditation, the past, nature, sleep, death, language, and farewells

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All I Have Are The Tracks
Another Insane Devotion
Arranging A Thorn
Bela
The Blink Of An Eye
Bob Summers' Body
The Dog
For Once
A Garden; For Gretchen Caracas And Howard Rogovin
Grapefruit
Hobbes
I Am In A Window
I Am In Love
I Do A Piece From Greece
I Hate My Moaning
I Slept Like That
I Sometimes Think Of The Lamb
It Was A Rising
It Was In Houston
Knowledge Forwards And Backwards
Lillian Harvey
Lovesick
Lyric
Making The Light Come
My Favorite Demon
My Favorite Farewell
My First Kinglet
Neither English Nor Spanish
No Longer Terror
Nobody Else Alive
Nobody Else Living
One Animal's Life
A Pair Of Hands
Pussy Willow
Shaking Myself And Sighing
Silver Hand
A Slow And Painful Recovery
A Song For The Romeos
Steps
Stolen Face
Stopping Schubert
Tashlikh
There I Was One Day
This Was A Wonderful Night
Two Moons
Washington Square
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From Publishers Weekly:

Recollection, ennui and the close description of the everyday have long characterized Stern's poetry. But having passed the age of 60, Stern seems to be trying to capture a wider sweep of emotions and ideas. While the poems in this collection continue to examine life in terms of "All that wonderful pity,/ all that wonderful bliss," they also seem to express a stronger note of finality than those in earlier collections. This feeling is best demonstrated in "Bela," in which he writes of Bartok's last days. Recalling a passage from the composer's late work, Stern observes "there is a noteI hear it/ of odd regret for a life not lived enough,/ everyone knows that sound, for me it's remorse,/ and there is a note of crazy satisfaction,/ this I love, of the life he would not change/ no matter whatno other animal/ could have such pleasure." Stern's readers are likely to come away from Lovesick with a similar feeling.
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