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Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern, the author of seventeen poetry collections, has won the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among others. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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Books by Gerald Stern

  1. Book CoverAmerican Sonnets: Poems


    "Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary."—Edward HirschMore

  2. Book CoverBread Without Sugar: Poems


    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.More

  3. Book CoverEarly Collected Poems: 1965-1992


    “Stern’s unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters.”—Philadelphia InquirerMore

  4. Book CoverEverything Is Burning: Poems


    "Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."—Ploughshares, Editor's ChoiceMore

  5. Book CoverIn Beauty Bright: Poems


    “Gerald Stern is the most expansively celebratory poet in years. He is akin to a natural force.”—Georgia Review More

  6. Book CoverLast Blue: Poems


    "Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."—BooklistMore

  7. Book CoverOdd Mercy: Poems


    "For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."—Library JournalMore

  8. Book CoverSave the Last Dance: Poems


    The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose “terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged” (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).More

  9. Book CoverThis Time: New and Selected Poems


    An exhilarating new collection by the poet often acclaimed as the modern Walt Whitman, his "spiritual reincarnation."More

  10. Book CoverWhat I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life


    A time now almost lost—America and Europe of the 1940s and 1950s—indelibly recalled in prose pieces by a celebrated poet.More