{"product_id":"insane-devotion-on-the-writing-of-gerald-stern-paperback","title":"Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMihaela Moscaliuc\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePhilip Levine\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerald Stern has been a significant presence and an impassioned and idiosyncratic voice in twentieth and twenty-first-century American poetry. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInsane Devotion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays and interviews in \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInsane Devotion\u003c\/b\u003e\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.\" Contributors include Contributors J. T. Barbarese, Dara Barnat, Lucy Biederman, Michael Broek, Darla Himeles, Edward Hirsch, Tony Leuzzi, Laura McCullough, Alicia Ostriker, Lia Purpura, Ira Sadoff, Michael Waters, Judith Vollmer, and Dean Young.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMihaela Moscaliuc\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eFather Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImmigrant Model\u003c\/i\u003e and the translator of Romanian poet Carmelia Leonte's \u003ci\u003eThe Hiss of the Viper\u003c\/i\u003e. Moscaliuc's essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Literary Cultures in East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSoundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrient and Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Task of Un-Masking: Essays on Poetry and Race\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGlobalizing Cultures: Theories and Paradigms Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e. She received her Ph.D. from University of Maryland, her M.F.A. from New England College, and her M.A. from Salisbury University. Moscaliuc is an assistant professor of English at Monmouth University and is on the core faculty of Drew University's MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48900112449785,"sku":"9781595347688","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/4DDLBS2mFy9781595347688.webp?v=1787738127","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/insane-devotion-on-the-writing-of-gerald-stern-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}