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Odd Mercy: Poems

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Title: Odd Mercy: Poems
Author: Gerald Stern
ISBN: 9780393316308
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine


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Publisher Description:
The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern himself, and a ninety-year-old black preacher from the Midwest. In "Hot Dog," and throughout, Stern wrestles with the issues--hope, memory, faith--that have always occupied him.