Galaxy Love: Poems

Synopsis

The Poems In This New Volume By The Winner Of The National Book Award Span Countries And Centuries, Reflecting On Memory, Aging, History, And Mortality. Hamlet Naked Traverses Manhattan In The 1960s From A Shakespeare Play On 47th Street To The Cellar Of A Ukranian Restaurant In The East Village; Thieves And Murderers Encompasses Musings Of The Medieval French Poet Francoid Villon And Dwight Eisenhower; Orson Recounts A Meeting Of The Poet And Orson Welles, Exiled In Paris. Gerald Stern Recalls Old Cars He Used To Drive-- The 1950 Buick / With The Small Steering Wheel / And The Cigar Lighter In The Back Seat --as Well As Intimate Portraits Of His Daily Life And The Mussel-pooled And Heron-priested Shore Of Florida. These Are Wistful, Generous, Lively Love Poems And Elegies That Capture The Passage Of Time, The Joys Of A Sensual Life, And Remembrances Of The Past. --dust Jacket. The Truth -- Galaxy Love -- Bio Vii -- Bastards -- Grandfathers -- Bio Viii -- Hiphole -- Song Of Deborah -- Canticle -- Miami -- Blue Jay -- Blue Particles -- Ghost -- Ich Bin Jude -- Today It's Easter -- The Hill -- Dead Lamb -- Space And Time -- Azaleas -- Cup Cake Store -- Perish The Day -- Poverty -- Bess, Zickel, Warhol, Arendt -- Bollingen Ezra Pound, 1949 -- Merwin -- No One -- Route -- Midrash -- Two Boats -- Ravenous -- Silence -- Dark Blue Geese -- Ruby Red -- A Walk Back From The Restaurant -- Lips -- Main Bridge -- Pittsburgh Sun-telegraph, 1939 -- Ritsos -- Boheme -- Decades -- Those Who Loved Budapest -- Gold -- The One In Paris -- Ecstasy -- Book Of The Dead -- The Year Of Everything -- Billionaires -- Two Things -- Larry -- Le Fleurs -- Never Again -- Croissant Moon -- Hope Mountain -- To Comfort You -- Thieves And Murderers -- Talking Angels -- Mad Ireland Drove Him Into Poverty -- Prince Of The Second Heaven -- Dirty Music -- Sunset -- Coal Barons -- Orson -- Visit From Mars -- Gelato -- Ancient Chinese Egg -- Loneliness -- Hamlet Naked -- Believe It -- Kgb, The Reading -- Goldfinches -- Marriage Song -- West Virginia -- Fall 1960 -- Mulberries -- Philadelphia, North Of Huntingdon -- My Grave -- Skylark -- The Other -- One War. Gerald Stern.