Chris Hedges: Death of an Oracle

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

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