{"product_id":"9781595347695","title":"Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern","description":"Gerald Stern has been a significant presence and an impassioned and idiosyncratic voice in twentieth and twenty-first-century American poetry. \u003ci\u003eInsane Devotion\u003c\/i\u003e is a retrospective of his career and features fourteen writers, critics, and poets examining the themes, stylistic traits, and craft of a poet who has shaped and inspired American verse for generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays and interviews in \u003ci\u003eInsane Devotion\u003c\/i\u003e paint a broad picture of a man made whole by the influence of the written word. They touch on the contentious and nuanced stance of Judaism in the breadth of Stern’s work and explore Stern’s capacious memory and his use of personal history to illuminate our common humanity. What is revealed is a poet of complexity and heart, often tender, often outraged. As Philip Levine writes in his lyrical foreword to the volume, Stern is both sweet and spiky, “a born teacher who can teach me to see the universe in an acorn and hear the music of the lost in an empty Pepsi can.”","brand":"Trinity University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166705828080,"sku":"9781595347695","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595347695_p0.jpg?v=1763814961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595347695","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}