Save the Last Dance
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W.W. Norton
Published: May 26, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780393066128
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; American - General; Poetry / General; General; Poetry
Description: "In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a collection of his intimately personal - yet universal and surprising - poems. Shorter lyric poems in the first two parts continue the satirical and redemptive vision of his last collection, Everything is Burning, while still carving out new emotional territory. The last part encompasses a long poem called "The Preachers," in which Stern adapts the book of Ecclesiastes as a starting point for a meditation on loss, futility, and emptiness."--Jacket.