Save the Last Dance: Poems

By Gerald Stern

Book Overview

In Save the Last Dance , Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal--yet always universal, and always surprising--poems, rich with humor and insight. Shorter lyric poems in the first two parts continue the satirical and often redemptive vision of his last collection, Everything Is Burning , while never failing to carve out new emotional territory. In the third part, a long poem called The Preacher, Stern takes the book of Ecclesiastes as a starting point for a meditation on loss, futility, and emptiness, represented here by the concept of a hole that resurfaces throughout.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066126
• ISBN13: 9780393066128
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"