{"product_id":"what-i-cant-bear-losing-essays-by-gerald-stern-paperback","title":"What I Can't Bear Losing: Essays by Gerald Stern - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGerald Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerald Stern's poetry has been variously praised for its visionary quality, its scope and passion, but most especially for its wholehearted embrace of life. Stern's special manner of \u003ci\u003ejoie de vivre\u003c\/i\u003e is immediately evident in his prose pieces as well. In this collection of personal essays, Stern speaks to the reader on subjects closest to his heart - family, justice, Jewishness, ecstasy, loss, and love, as well as Andy Warhol, Paris, and getting shot in the neck. He ranges from passionate literary discussions to buoyant anecdotes about borrowing William Carlos Williams' hat from the writer's historic home. With seven new pieces, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat I Can't Bear Losing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates a writer passionately engaged with life in America after World War II and gives a glimpse of the poetic processes of one of today's most beloved literary voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Stern's\u003c\/b\u003e recent books of poetry are \u003ci\u003eDivine Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Beauty Bright, Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992, Save the Last Dance, This Time: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award, \u003ci\u003eOdd Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBread without Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e. His honors include the Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Review, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 2005 Stern received the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry. For many years a teacher at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Stern lives in Lambertville, NJ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.14 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771012383008,"sku":"9781595340542","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/21e244e5761f9a130a1dd89e1e9aa4fe.webp?v=1780381817","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-i-cant-bear-losing-essays-by-gerald-stern-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}