num_pages: 288
description: An exhilarating new collection by the poet often acclaimed as the modern Walt Whitman, his "spiritual reincarnation." "This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long / for me to get lenient? What does it mean one life / only?' " ― Publishers Weekly (starred review)  "Gerald Stern's achievement is immense. In this beautiful gathering . . . one encounters a poet who praises and mourns in turn and even at once." ― Grace Schulman, The Nation "Stern is one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it." ― C. K. Williams
language: English
title: This Time: New and Selected Poems
titlecomplete: This Time: New and Selected Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 210
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company