Gerald Stern said poets had a sacred calling. They must not allow the oppressed to remain voiceless, the crimes of the oppressor to go unnamed or memory to be obliterated.
By Chris Hedges
ScheerPost.com
The poet Gerald Stern, who died last Friday at the age of 97, spent his life thundering agai
Gerald Stern, a professor and activist, wrote more than a dozen books filled with his spirited melancholy and earthly humor. One of his best known anthology is.