Bert Stern
Co-founder of Off the Grid Press
Bert Stern is the author of two previous poetry collections, Silk/The Ragpicker’s Grandson and Steerage, as well as the critical book Wallace Stevens: Art of Uncertainty, and Winter in China, a monograph on American expatriate Robert Winter. He is Milligan Professor of English Emeritus at Wabash College, and has also taught at the University of Thessaloniki as Fulbright Professor of English and at Peking University. Stern served as chief editor for Hilton Publishing, and for fifteen years taught for Changing Lives through Literature, a program designed for men and women on probation. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
“Flawless in its versification, deeply impressive, and perpetually pleasure-giving. I have to say, there isn’t a poem in this book that I can resist, and I know the reader will share my pleasure.””
“On every page of this book, Bert Stern sounds the tragic-comic note of a master. And from this double plane of regard, his poems are as aglitter with gaiety as they are alive to the tears of things.””
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poems by bert stern
In this exquisite third book, Bert Stern grapples with the elemental and the extraordinary, looking back on the length of his journey and finding realms of possibility, powerful proof of a life well lived. Moments of divine recognition pervade these poems—their rough terrains, their changing atmospheres and stunning grace—culminating in a profound sense of gratitude for the tactile world. Here is a poet writing at the height of his powers.
