Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems - Softcover

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Acacia
Adler
All I Have Are The Tracks
The Angel Poem
Another Insane Devotion
Arranging A Thorn
Arthur's Lily
At Bickford's
At Jane's
Baja
Bee Balm
Behaving Like A Jew
Bela
Berkeley
The Bite
The Blessed
Blue Skies, White Breasts, Green Trees
Bob Summers' Body
Bob Summers: The Final Poem
Burying An Animal On The Way To New York
The Cemetery Of Orange Trees In Crete
Christmas Sticks
Cow Worship
The Dancing
Days Of 1978
Dear Mole
The Dog
Elaine Comparone
The Expulsion
The Faces I Love
For Night To Come
For Once
For Song
Fritz
Gert's Gifts
God Of Rain, God Of Water
Gold Flower
Grapefruit
Hanging Scroll
Here I Am Walking
Hidden Justice
His Animal Is Finally A Kind Of Ape
Hobbes
Honey Locust
A Hundred Years From Now
The Hungarian
I Am In A Window
I Am In Love
I Do A Piece From Greece
I Pity The Wind
I Remember Galileo
I Sometimes Think Of The Lamb
If You Forget The Germans
If You Saw Me Walking
Immanuel Kant And The Hop!
Immensity
In Carpenter's Woods
In Kovalchik's Garden
In Memory Of W.h. Auden
It Was A Rising
It Was In Houston
It's Nice To Think Of Tears
John's Mysteries
Joseph Pockets
July 2, 1983
June First
June Fourth
Kissing Stieglitz Goodbye
Knowledge Forwards And Backwards
Leaving Another Kingdom
Let Me Please Look Into My Window
Lillian Harvey
Little Did The Junco Know
Little White Sister
Lord, Forgive A Spirit
Lost With Lieutenant Pike
Love For The Dog
Lovesick
Lucky Life
Lyric
Magritte Dancing
Making The Light Come
Malaguena
Mentioning Of The Souls
Modern Love
Morning Harvest
Moscow
My Favorite Farewell
My First Kinglet
My Swallows
The Naming Of Beasts
Neither English Nor Spanish
The Nettle Tree
No Wind
On My Poor Road
On The Far Edge Of Kilmer
On The Island
One Animal's Life
One Bird To Love Forever
The One Thing In Life
Orange Roses
A Pair Of Hands
Peddler's Village
The Picasso Poem
Pick And Poke
Picking The Roses
Pile Of Feathers
The Poem Of Liberation
The Poem Of Life
The Power Of Maples
Red Bird
The Red Coal
Rejoicings
The Roar
Romance
Romania, Romania
The Rose Warehouse
Rotten Angel
Royal Manor Road
The Same Moon Above Us
Self-portrait
The Sensitive Knife
The Shirt Poem
Silver Hand
Singing
A Slow And Painful Recovery
Soap
Something New
Song
A Song For The Romeos
Stepping Out Of Poetry
Steps
Stopping Schubert
Straus Park
The Supreme Subject
The Sweetness Of Life
Sycamore
There I Was One Day
There Is Wind, There Are Matches
Thinking About Shelley
This Is It
This Is Lord Herbert Moaning
This Was A Wonderful Night
Three Skies
Three Tears: 1
Three Tears: 2
Three Tears: 3
Today A Leaf
Turning Into A Pond
Two Moons
Underground Dancing
The Unity
Visiting Florida Again
Vivaldi Years
Washington Square
Waving Good-by
Weeping And Wailing
When I Have Reached The Point Of Suffocation
Your Animal
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

The cumulative effect of Stern's thought makes this substantial collection worth reading. Confidentially addressing the reader in long, expansive, Whitmanesque lines, his longer poems are the most successful. Stern ( Paradise Poems , LJ 8/84; Lovesick , LJ 9/1/87) goes on an unending quest to understand the kalei doscopic mystery of individual experience: the beloved woman he did not marry, the search for justice, the mo ments of intense joy from nature and books, the sadness of life. His America is populated less by cultural landmarks than by grief and loss: "in America, all that richness, all that Utopia, wasted"; in rotting Lambertville, New Jersey, people walk "past abandoned factories and wooden garages/ . . . to stinking New Hope, where all their deep longing/ is reduced to an hour and a half of greedy buying." As with all long collec tions, this one is uneven, but honest, ambitious, and recommended.
- Bettina Drew, City Coll., CUNY
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