Everything you need to understand or teach One of the Smallest by Gerald Stern.
Gerald Stern’s poem “One of the Smallest” was first published in the journal Poetry in January 1997. A four-page poem, it is the first section of six sections in Stern’s twelfth book of poetry, Last Blue, published in 2000. Stern did not start publishing poetry until 1971, when he was forty-six years old, but by 1973, he had received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to be a master poet...