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Gerald Stern - definition of Gerald Stern in Encyclopedia (103 words) |
 | Gerald Stern - definition of Gerald Stern in Encyclopedia |
| Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh) is a United States poet. |
| He work was widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life and a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. |
| Online NewsHour: Gerald Stern -- November 23, 1998 (1272 words) |
| GERALD STERN: When I was - I don't know - I always - when I was in high school and in the army and in college, I was always writing poetry, and I thought everybody was writing poetry. |
| GERALD STERN: Well, that's, of course, the old allegory, medieval allegory of the race between the hare and the turtle, and the turtle is slow, and the hare is fast, and ultimately, the turtle wins, because he's steadfast and determined, while the hare is loafing and sleeping and enjoying himself. |
| GERALD STERN: The poem is a little complicated but I'm not going to get into a deep explanation to use our time up, because it also involves Charles Lindbergh, who's been in the news later, and there's a kind of negative attitude towards him. |
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