Download or read book American Sonnets written by Gerald Stern and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2002 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-nine "Stern sonnets" of twenty or so lines from the 1998 National Book Award winner. This stunning collection moves from autobiography to the visionary in surges of memory and language that draw the reader from one poem to the next. "I was taken over by the writing of these poems," Stern says.