THE CORTLAND REVIEW  

 HOME

GERALD STERN - WINTER 2008 FEATURE  

The Cortland Review

FEATURE
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.

Michael Burkard

Michael Burkard's books include Envelope of Night (Nightboat Books, 2008), Unsleeping (Sarabande Books, 2001), Pennsylvania Collection Agency (New Issues Press, 2001), Entire Dilemma (Sarabande Books, 1998) and My Secret Boat (W.W. Norton, 1990). He teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University.
 


"the clock of the invisible axe"    

                  —Victor Hugo



can you leave by the
second side door on your
way to the ship?, or do
you have to flee toward
the front, like a horse
not wanting to serve
in war, or not favoring
at all injustice to a woman
searching still and later
and also belatedly
for the soldier
who undid her in
another town in
a different time—
and places are
like clouds when you
try to desperately
or obsessively retrieve
                      them—

 

top  

© 2008 The Cortland Review