Stealing History

by Stern, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9781595341143
• ISBN10: 1595341145
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-24
• Publisher: Trinity University Press

Summary

"Gerald Stern is not only one of our. nation's finest poets but one of our nation's most eloquent and important essayists. His newest book, Stealing History, is filled with the usual wisdom, lucid, and penetrating prose, humorùoften ribaldùand radical critique.of power that his admirers,! myself among them, cherish. His voice slices with wit, charm, and intelligence through the cant and noise of modern culture. I gave away over a dozen copies of his last book of prose, What I Can't Bear Losing, to friends and am set to do the same with, this one." '

Table of Contents

Park Bench	p. 1
Dragonfly, Famous Deaths	p. 7
Chance Writing, Saints	p. 16
The Lamb	p. 19
Christ	p. 27
Diary ofthe Mind	p. 34
Dogs	p. 35
Tyler School of Art	p. 40
Rome and" the Jews	p. 44
The Living Presence	p. 47
"Christians" in Haiti	p. 49
Education ofthe Poet	p. 51
Straddling	p. 53
My Mother and Father	p. 55
The Train Station	p. 57
Athletes	p. 59
Jack Gilbert	p. 64
Haiti, the Long History	p. 64
Exploitation	p. 66
The Comic	p. 70
Sports and Business	p. 85
Deicide	p. 87
War Work	p. 90
Learning Poetry, Living Cheap	p. 94
	p. 99
Uncle Harry and the Robin	p. 100
Lucille's Death	p. 103
Four Crises	p. 106
Fifty More Pages	p. 112
Alana Rose	p. 118
26 Vandam	p. 119
Signs over Gates	p. 127
Dragonflies	p. 128
My Big Mouth	p. 130
Trip to New York with Poet-Potter	p. 133
James Schuyler	p. 136
Dog Eat Dog	p. 138
Academy of Arts Medal	p. 141
Meister Eckhart	p. 144
Larry Levis, Caravaggio	p. 147
Angela Hazley's Death	p. 155
Playing Jacks	p. 160
New Zealand Broadsides	p. 166
Demystification	p. 167
Remorse, Gilgamesh	p. 173
Etheridge Knight	p. 178
Pruning Hooks	p. 187
Charlie I	p. 196
Israel	p. 197
Nut Death	p. 199
Anti-Semitic Cartoons	p. 205
Marie Ponsot	p. 206
Again Haiti	p. 207
Charlie and Elvira	p. 207
McChrystal	p. 208
Bob Bernat	p. 210
Montpellier	p. 213
The Steel Pier	p. 219
Charlie III	p. 219
Libby	p. 221
Bialystock, 1906	p. 225
Poland I	p. 227
Poland II	p. 229
Neighbors I	p. 232
Lev Going	p. 238
Lev Not There	p. 239
Neighbors II	p. 243
Neighbors III	p. 246
Neighbors IV	p. 253
Saltwater Pools	p. 259
Childhood in New York	p. 262
Henry James in New York	p. 264
Air- Conditioned Nightmare	p. 267
Henry Miller's New York	p. 270
Simone de Beauvoir's New York	p. 273
Atlantic City	p. 278
Turkish Restaurant in Paris	p. 279
Paul McCartney	p. 280
Yom Kippur Pear	p. 282
The Engineers' Club	p. 285
Betty Kray	p. 288
Hole in Forehead	p. 289
The Stages of Life	p. 298
Port Authority	p. 300
Permissions	p. 305
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