All Books By Gerald Stern

1. In Beauty Bright

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

2. Early Collected Poems

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

3. Save the Last Dance

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

4. Save the Last Dance

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

5. Everything Is Burning

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

6. American Sonnets

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

7. What I Can't Bear Losing

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

8. Last Blue

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

9. This Time

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

10. Odd Mercy

    "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

11. Bread Without Sugar

    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.More