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Gerald Stern
Five poems by Gerald Stern.


POETRY
Christopher Buckley
Michael Burkard
Jeff Friedman
Ross Gay
Jack Gilbert This marks an author's first online publication
Linda Gregg
Jane Hirshfield
Tony Hoagland
Joan Larkin
Dorianne Laux
Jan Heller Levi
Anne Marie Macari
Ed Ochester
Alicia Ostriker
Kathleen Peirce This marks an author's first online publication
Peter Richards
Ira Sadoff
Jean Valentine
Arthur Vogelsang This marks an author's first online publication
Judith Vollmer
Anne Waldman
Peter Waldor
Michael Waters This marks an author's first online publication
 
Essay
"The Final Vocabulary of Gerald Stern" by David Rigsbee.

Book Review
"Save the Last Dance" by Gerald Stern—Book Review, by David Rigsbee.

Jean Valentine

Jean Valentine is the current state poet of New York (2008–2010). Her most recent book of poetry is Little Boat (Wesleyan, 2007). Her previous collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 (Wesleyan), won the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.
 


On the bus


the ghost-bus travels along beside us
and the reading-light,
a straight-faced little moon

And you cloud, ragged, legless rabbit
with your long nose
and your enormous eye

Tell me
What is the name for a non end-stopped line?
Who was it M. looked like?

Was it Kafka?      Kafka,
is that your enormous eye?
Ecstatic eye,
still see us your same clay.

 

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