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Galaxy Love: Poems
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"Pure movement of mind, passion, knowledge." —Juan Felipe Herrera


Galaxy Love spans countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history, and mortality. In wistful, generous, and lively love poems and elegies, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern captures the passage of time, the joys of a sensual life, and remembrances of the past.

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      • source: John Timpane;Philadelphia Inquirer
      • content: What a voice, what a bardic roll. [Gerald Stern's] poetry is a lifelong act of love.
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      • source: David Kirby;New York Times Book Review
      • content: [Stern] has settled into a serenity reminiscent of his old master Whitman.... [But] the old appetite is still on duty.... In every overcaffeinated and rumbustious line, Gerald Stern has been telling us that the best way to live is not so much for poetry but through poetry, and he underlines that idea here again in Galaxy Love.
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      • source: Lucy Biederman, Jewish Book Council
      • content: In Galaxy Love, [Stern] is nostalgic, expansive, intellectual, silly, serious, homespun, highfalutin—sometimes all at once.... His perspective, and his way of accessing religious, political, and literary history, have earned him a place among great American poets.
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      • source: John Repp;Erie Reader
      • content: Stern is... absolutely necessary to living.
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      • source: Tayla Zax;Forward
      • content: [Gerald] Stern is nearly 92 and still producing poetry that exudes a keen awareness of the strangeness of age.
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      • source: Grace Cavalieri;Washington Independent Review of Books
      • content: Poetry-talk is [Stern's] gift; with the spirit and intent of the poetry gods.
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      • source: Library Journal
      • content: Thoughtful narrative recollections from and about the poet himself.
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      • source: Philip Schultz, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Luxury
      • content: There has never been a poet like Gerald Stern, who likes to shake things and empty them out, and then share what's found with the entire congregation. Sorrow and exultation get their equal turn, but it's the human imagination and all its jubilant fecundity that's paid special attention. Whether it's a fistfight between Stevens and Hemingway ('Who punched whom') or Tolstoy dying unsweetened, what's offered is nothing less than an excursion into the soul, where, as we all know, one finds love for the galaxy, at least one goat sucker, and a wild canary. I didn't know until the last page how famished I was, how in need of a feast.
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        February 15, 2017

        Prolific poet Stern, winner of such accolades as the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and the Robert Frost Medal, among others, sticks to form in this latest. Stern's speakers--mostly his celebratory, verbose, digressive self, in the Whitmanian tradition--look backward, as the eponymous poem clearly articulates in its opening lines: "There's too little time left to measure/ the space between us for that was/ long ago." The framing devices remain mostly in the past tense, as in "Dead Lamb" ("For some reason there was no more sea") and "Silence" ("I once planned a room for pure silence"). VERDICT Although this book quickly follows In Beauty Bright, which might leave readers wondering how fresh these poems feel, these ultimately thoughtful narrative recollections from and about the poet himself should do well in most general poetry collections. [See Prepub Alert, 10/24/16.]--Stephen Morrow, Hilliard, OH

        Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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