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Odd Mercy

By Stern , Gerald

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company;Proquest LLC
Year
2011
ISBN
9780393316308, 9780393247527
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
465 kB (476583 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

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