Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, essayist and educator Gerald Stern about his new poems, his old poems, Tourette Syndrome, keeping in touch with students, the Iowa Writers Workshop, teaching, place, memory, writing (not nice things about) living or identifiable people, Jewish identity and much more.
Extra Materials for Episode 54Books by Gerald SternGalaxy Love (W. W. Norton, 2017)
Divine Nothingness (W. W. Norton, 2016)
Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade (Trinity University Press, 2017)
This Time (Vaso Roto, 2014)
Stealing History (Trinity University Press, 2012)
In Beauty Bright (W. W. Norton, 2012)
Early Collected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2010)
What I Can’t Bear Losing: Essays (Trinity University Press, 2009)
The Preacher: A Poem (Sarabande, 2007)
Everything is Burning (W. W. Norton, 2006)
American Sonnets (W. W. Norton, 2003)
Last Blue (W. W. Norton, 2001)
This Time: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 1999)
Lucky Life (Carnegie Mellon, 1995)
Bread Without Sugar (W. W. Norton, 1993)
Other Books/Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeTerrance Hayes
Anne Marie Macari
Ross Gay
Thomas Lux
Marvin Bell
Brenda Hillman
Robert Hass
Jorie Graham
Heather McHugh
Bob Perelman
Lucy Biederman
James Schuyler
Ezra Pound
Matthew Rohrer
Robert Lowell
Allen Tate
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Episode 41: Danez Smith
Episode 40: Kaveh Akbar
Episode 39: Erika L. Sánchez
Episode 38: Sharon Olds
Episode 37: Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso
Episode 36: Dialogue Arts Project
Episode 35: Aracelis Girmay
Episode 34: Dr. Joshua Bennett
Episode 33: Sabrina Orah Mark
Episode 32: Laynie Browne
Episode 31: Carmen Giménez Smith
Episode 30: Sarah Vap
Episode 29: Molly Peacock
Episode 28: Poems for Mother's Day
Episode 27: Rita Dove
Episode 26: Alice Notley
Episode 25: Ross Gay
Episode 24: Julie Carr
Episode 23: Morgan Parker
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