Episode 54: Gerald Stern
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Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, essayist and educator Gerald Stern about his new poems, his old poems, Tourette Syndrome, keeping in touch with students, the Iowa Writers Workshop, teaching, place, memory, writing (not nice things about) living or identifiable people, Jewish identity and much more.
Books by Gerald Stern
Galaxy Love (W. W. Norton, 2017)
Divine Nothingness (W. W. Norton, 2016)
Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade (Trinity University Press, 2017)
This Time (Vaso Roto, 2014)
Stealing History (Trinity University Press, 2012)
In Beauty Bright (W. W. Norton, 2012)
Early Collected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2010)
What I Can’t Bear Losing: Essays (Trinity University Press, 2009)
The Preacher: A Poem (Sarabande, 2007)
Everything is Burning (W. W. Norton, 2006)
American Sonnets (W. W. Norton, 2003)
Last Blue (W. W. Norton, 2001)
This Time: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 1999)
Lucky Life (Carnegie Mellon, 1995)
Bread Without Sugar (W. W. Norton, 1993)
Other Books/Writers Mentioned in the Episode