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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
In Beauty Bright: Poems
Hardback, 2012
“Gerald Stern is the most expansively celebratory poet in years. He is akin to a natural force.”—Georgia Review
Divine Nothingness: Poems
Paperback, 2016
From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.
Galaxy Love: Poems
Paperback, 2019
“What a voice, what a bardic roll. [Stern’s] poetry is a lifelong act of love.”— Philadelphia Inquirer
Save the Last Dance: Poems
E Book, 2008
The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).
In Beauty Bright: Poems
E Book, 2012
“The work of an American master.”—World Literature Today
Divine Nothingness: Poems
E Book, 2014
From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.
Galaxy Love: Poems
E Book, 2017
“Pure movement of mind, passion, knowledge.”—Juan Felipe Herrera
Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018
E Book, 2020
An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern
Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018
Hardback, 2021
Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern.
Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018
Paperback, 2023
An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern