Odd Mercy: Poems
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ISBN: 0393316300 / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, June 1997
A collection of poems features such characters as a New York City street woman, Noah, St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, and the author himself
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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.
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