Odd Mercy: Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Odd Mercy: Poems by Gerald Stern, W. W. Norton & Company
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Author: Gerald Stern ISBN: 9780393247527
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: June 17, 1997
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Gerald Stern
ISBN: 9780393247527
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: June 17, 1997
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

"For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."—Library Journal

The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern himself, and a ninety-year-old black preacher from the Midwest. In "Hot Dog," and throughout, Stern wrestles with the issues—hope, memory, faith—that have always occupied him.

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"For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."—Library Journal

The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern himself, and a ninety-year-old black preacher from the Midwest. In "Hot Dog," and throughout, Stern wrestles with the issues—hope, memory, faith—that have always occupied him.

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