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Gerald Stern Death Watch (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Publication Name
- Death Watch
- Title
- Death Watch
- Subtitle
- A View from the Tenth Decade
- EAN
- 9781595347848
- ISBN
- 9781595347848
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 03/02/2017
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- Death Watch : a Meditation
- Item Length
- 7in
- Publisher
- Trinity University Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Body, Mind & Spirit
- Topic
- Mindfulness & Meditation, Personal Memoirs
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Information
In Death Watch , the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate his own mortality. Characteristically audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic, Stern looks back at his life and forward in time to how his story will play out. Wrestling with his identity in Judaism, he explores how his name was uprooted from its origins, as so much of his life will be willfully disrupted from the expectations of his parents and the norms of a predictable path. Stern recounts his life, itself "a grand digression," which takes him from Pittsburgh, to the Army, to Paris on the GI Bill, and back to the United States, where he immerses himself in the literary culture around him. Stern's early and traumatic loss of his older sister provides the occasion to imagine what her life might have been, and he revels in his past love affairs, the many women beloved in his life. He recollects books that occupy his recent reading--the work of W.G. Sebald, Blaise Cendrars, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline--and how memory is always at the heart of literary accomplishment and what creates the staying power of great literature. Death Watch is as an account of a beloved poet's final journey; a vivid, passionate, and, at times, whimsical look at the gamble of living life to its fullest, choosing the life of a poet, philosopher, prophet, lover, radical, and perpetual troublemaker.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Trinity University Press
ISBN-10
1595347844
ISBN-13
9781595347848
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227686617
Product Key Features
Book Title
Death Watch : a Meditation
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mindfulness & Meditation, Personal Memoirs
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Body, Mind & Spirit
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.T3888d43 2017
Reviews
"There is no warning as to where Jerry, as his many friends call him, will strike next as he roams about his long and productive life." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Gerald Stern is one of those writers whose style insinuates itself into your consciousness like a catchy tune, so that you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms, bopping from one to another, back and forth, like thought and language doing a jitterbug." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary." -- Edward Hirsch "Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery." -- Ploughshares "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 "In 29 vignettes, essays and memories recorded over 212 pages, Stern writes of a life characterized by clarity of vision and tremendous chutzpah." -- San Antonio Express-News, "There is no warning as to where Jerry, as his many friends call him, will strike next as he roams about his long and productive life." -- -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Gerald Stern is one of those writers whose style insinuates itself into your consciousness like a catchy tune, so that you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms, bopping from one to another, back and forth, like thought and language doing a jitterbug." -- -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary." -- -- Edward Hirsch "Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery." -- -- Ploughshares "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 "In 29 vignettes, essays and memories recorded over 212 pages, Stern writes of a life characterized by clarity of vision and tremendous chutzpah." -- San Antonio Express-News, Praise for Gerald Stern: "There is no warning as to where Jerry, as his many friends call him, will strike next as he roams about his long and productive life." -- Post-Gazette "Gerald Stern is one of those writers whose style insinuates itself into your consciousness like a catchy tune, so that you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms, bopping from one to another, back and forth, like thought and language doing a jitterbug." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Stern's unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary." -- Edward Hirsch "Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery." -- Ploughshares "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
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-002842
Intended Audience
Trade
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