I liked this hotel best because the swimming pool was on the roof and I was closer by an inch to the sun that way and there were birds thereby that fit into the landscape more and flew at right angles to my elevated body as I crawled up and down the cement lanes guided […]
I had two uncles who were proletarians and one of them was a house painter and one of them was a carpenter—they beat their wives regularly and they had nineteen children between them. Once a month or so my father would go to one of their houses to intervene and once I remember a police […]
I don’t want to go to Hemingway’s house, let him come to mine, walk in and we’ll do The Killers at my kitchen table, he with his back to the Japanese maple, me with my back to the Maytag, ginger ale for one, white rum the other; the dragon and the mayfly, death and the […]
We were surrounded by buttercup and phlox so you know what the month was, one of us had Sarah Vaughn in her inner ear, one of us Monk, who put a table there we didn’t know but we were more or less grateful nor was it even chained to anything and the eggs we ate […]
Diogenes for me and sleeping in a bathtub and stealing the key to the geneology room close to the fake Praxiteles and ripping a book up since the wrath had taken me over the edge again and you understand as no one else how when the light is lit I have to do something, I […]
I get the sense that she is not cooperative in English and on the last leg of her trip into New York City going through the tunnel and briefly through the light and into another tunnel but this time for good she sits until the line is in front of her singing a little Christman […]
Gerald Stern talks about determining the form a poem will take.
Gerald Stern talks about the first poem he ever wrote.