In Beauty Bright - Poems (Paperback)

The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern s previous work, move into an area of knowledge even wisdom that reflects a long life of writing, teaching, and activism. They are poems of grief and anger, but the music is delicate and moving. from "In Beauty Bright": In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake s lily and though an angel he looked absurd dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright store wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping, nor was it useless you who know it know how useful it is and how he would be dead in a minute if he were to lose it though how do you lose a lily?"