A lovely Signed First Edition copy! Fine in hardcover (square, tight, unmarked) in a fine dust jacket -- crisp, bright, tight -- which has not been price-clipped, and which has been protected in mylar. First edition; first printing (full number line present). Elegantly signed by Stern on the title page. (No inscription.) Suitable condition for presentation as a gift, or for adding to a library collection. Ships from NC. All books are sealed in recycled plastic, packed securely with protective wrapping, and shipped promptly. (U-4.).

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Title

Bread Without Sugar: Poems (Signed First Edition)

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0393030946

ISBN 13

9780393030945

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Signed by Author(s)

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A collection of poems including "The Bull-Roarer," "The Founder," "One Gift," "Aspiring to Music," "Those Things," and "I Would Call it Derangement"

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An overpowering sense of nostalgia is the motive force that drives the intensely lyrical poems of Stern's eighth book of poetry. Each poem is a poignant song of love and longing as the poet, now past middle age, looks back on the transcendent moments of his childhood. "How much I loved you in those days,/ how free I felt," he says of a first love. He remembers his father who owned "fifty wide ties," his friends and mentors (Kenneth Burke and Guy Daniels), his estranged wife, now like a flower "pink with brown edges." But mostly he remembers nature in the form of possum skulls, sheep, blackbirds, meadowlarks, trees, and wildflowers. "All things/ aspire to music," says Stern, and his poems are musical transcriptions of the beauty and pain that define life itself. Recommended for all poetry collections.
- Daniel L. Guillory, Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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