Everything Is Burning
Poems
9 January 2007
Description
"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."—Ploughshares, Editor's Choice
Gerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech.
Reviews
"Stern’s unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters." — Philadelphia Inquirer
"Crackles with . . . exuberance, impatience, and an apparently consuming need." — San Francisco Chronicle
Awards
Winner — National Jewish Book Award, 2005
Also By: 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
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
E Book, 2020
An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern
Galaxy Love: Poems
Paperback, 2019
“What a voice, what a bardic roll. [Stern’s] poetry is a lifelong act of love.”— Philadelphia Inquirer
Galaxy Love: Poems
E Book, 2017
“Pure movement of mind, passion, knowledge.”—Juan Felipe Herrera