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.
Awards
Books by Gerald Stern
"Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary."—Edward HirschMore
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.More
“Stern’s unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters.”—Philadelphia InquirerMore
"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."—Ploughshares, Editor's ChoiceMore
“Gerald Stern is the most expansively celebratory poet in years. He is akin to a natural force.”—Georgia Review
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"Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."—BooklistMore
"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
The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose “terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged” (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).More
An exhilarating new collection by the poet often acclaimed as the modern Walt Whitman, his "spiritual reincarnation."More
A time now almost lost—America and Europe of the 1940s and 1950s—indelibly recalled in prose pieces by a celebrated poet.More