“I’ve changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems – believe it or not – are more pointedly political; although, if the earlier poems were more existential, they were still political; though, in their own way, had a complicated presence.”

“I’ve changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems – believe it or not – are more pointedly political; although, if the earlier poems were more existential, they were still political; though, in their own way, had a complicated presence.”

— Gerald Stern