Making the Light Come: The Poetry of Gerald Stern

Akkadia Allen Ginsberg American American Poetry Review biblical bird called canon character comic confessional poem corpus Crete culture death deep image dramatic dream emotion enactment figure flowers garden poem Gerald Stern gesture goes haggadic hand Hassidic hero Hillringhouse human imagery imagines irony Jesus Jewish kabbala kabbalistic kind Lamont Poetry Prize light live locust look lost memory metaphor moves myth mythic nostalgia nostalgic Ovid paradise past people's garden pity plant playful poet poet's poetry prophet quest rabbi rebirth recurring remind ritual river Robert Pinsky role romantic Rotten Angel sadness says secret seen significance speaker becomes spirit stance Stern poem Stern speaker stolen face stranger Street suffering symbols syntax tense themes thing throughout Stern tion tradition tragi-comic transformation tree trope turns typical vision voice waiting walk wanderer weeds wing word worms Zane Grey