Background
Stern, Gerald Daniel was born on February 22, 1925 in Pittsburgh. Son of Harry and Ida (Barach) Stern.
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"Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary."―Edward Hirsch In his thirteenth collection, the 1998 National Book Award winner presents us with fifty-nine "Stern Sonnets," of twenty or so lines rather than the traditional fourteen. Using the events of his life as starting points, Gerald Stern deals with time and loss, with the dichotomy of light and darkness, and―always―with the possibility of joy. This stunning collection moves from autobiography to the visionary in surges of memory and language that draw the reader from one poem to the next.
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"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 The 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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Stern, Gerald Daniel was born on February 22, 1925 in Pittsburgh. Son of Harry and Ida (Barach) Stern.
Bachelor, University Pittsburgh, 1947. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1949.
English teacher, principal Lake Grove (New York ) School, 1951-1953. English teacher Victoria Doctor Secondary School, Glasgow, Scotland, 1953-1954. English instructor Temple University, Philadelphia, 1956-1963.
Associate professor English Indiana (Pennsylvania) University of Pennsylvania, 1963-1967. Professor English Somerset (New Jersey) County College, 1968-1982. Professor English, Writers' Workshop, University Iowa, Iowa City, 1982-1996.
Lecturer Douglas College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1968. Visiting poet Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1978, University Pittsburgh, 1978. Visiting professor Columbia University, New York City, 1980, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1988, New York University, 1989, 91, Princeton University, 1989.
Fanny Hurst professor Washignton University, St. Louis, 1985. Coal chair creative writing University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1984.
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( Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. )
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Fellow Academy American Poets.
Married Patricia Miller, September 12, 1952 (divorced). Children: Rachel, David.