Poems deal with lovesickness, loss, the imagination, music, religion, meditation, the past, nature, sleep, death, language, and farewells

Lovesick: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Stern, Gerald

Poetry

Perennial Library

Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems

Poems deal with mortality, language, travel, farewells, love, artists, and friendship

Harpercollins

Poems deal with mortality, language, travel, farewells, love, artists, and friendship

Bread Without Sugar: Poems

A collection of poems including "The Bull-Roarer," "The Founder," "One Gift," "Aspiring to Music," "Those Things," and "I Would Call it Derangement"

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Odd Mercy: Poems

A collection of poems features such characters as a New York City street woman, Noah, St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, and the author himself.

W.W.Norton&Company

This Time: New and Selected Poems

An exhilarating new collection by the poet often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman. "For over two decades," the Library Journal has said, "no one has equaled Gerald Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation of being alive." The poems in this substantial volume, the majority of which are no longer available in other editions, have been selected from seven previous collections (1972-1995). Along with favorite poems redeemed, Stern offers a generous array of new poems, including moving tributes to Larry Levis, "Eggshell," and Allen Ginsberg, "Lilacs for Ginsberg."

A luminous new collection by the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Poetry. Of these outstanding new poems, Gerald Stern says: "Light vs. darkness has always been one of my themes, but now more than ever. Not only is this the root--and metaphor--for all the major religions, but the almost biological frame of reference for humans. With me, it is overwhelming, personal."

Last Blue: Poems

Fifty-nine "Stern sonnets" of twenty or so lines from the 1998 National Book Award winner. This stunning collection moves from autobiography to the visionary in surges of memory and language that draw the reader from one poem to the next. "I was taken over by the writing of these poems," Stern says.

American Sonnets

Essays & Correspondence

A time now almost lost―America and Europe of the 1940s and 1950s―indelibly recalled in prose pieces by a celebrated poet. In a series of freewheeling rambles that combine autobiography and meditation, Gerald Stern explores significant and representative events in his life. He describes the dour Sundays of Calvinist Pittsburgh, punctuated by his parents' weekly battles. We have glimpses of him as a wilderness camp counselor, and later, having been declared 4-F, as a postwar draftee (a stint that includes jail). In the 1950s he savors the romance of Paris. Stern also tells of being shot in Newark―the bullet is still in his neck to prove it. Other scenes include being mistaken for Allen Ginsberg and encounters with Andy Warhol. And in the ineffably tender "The Ring," Stern recalls his mother's second engagement ring, "when they were a bit richer, if a bit broader and a bit more weary." As in his poetry, Stern discovers his subject as he goes along, relishing that discovery and expanding on it. There is no other voice like Gerald Stern's, funny and reflective and opinionated―and forgiving.

What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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Lovesick: Poems

Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems

Lovesick: Poems

Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems

Bread Without Sugar: Poems

Odd Mercy: Poems

This Time: New and Selected Poems

Last Blue: Poems

American Sonnets

What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life