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Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern
Awards
Winner — National Book Award, 1998
Winner — National Jewish Book Award, 2005
Winner — Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 2012
Shortlisted — PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, 2021
Books by Gerald Stern
Odd Mercy: Poems
Paperback, 1997
"For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."—Library Journal
What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life
Hardback, 2004
A time now almost lost—America and Europe of the 1940s and 1950s—indelibly recalled in prose pieces by a celebrated poet.
In Beauty Bright: Poems
Paperback, 2014
“The work of an American master.”—World Literature Today
Bread Without Sugar: Poems
Paperback, 1993
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
This Time: New and Selected Poems
Paperback, 1999
An exhilarating new collection by the poet often acclaimed as the modern Walt Whitman, his "spiritual reincarnation."
Last Blue: Poems
Paperback, 2001
"Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."—Booklist
American Sonnets: Poems
Paperback, 2003
"Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary."—Edward Hirsch
Everything Is Burning: Poems
Paperback, 2007
"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."—Ploughshares, Editor's Choice
Save the Last Dance: Poems
Paperback, 2010
The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose “terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged” (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).
Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992
Hardback, 2010
“Stern’s unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters.”—Philadelphia Inquirer