Gerald Stern

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Gerald Stern


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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.

Average rating: 4.18 · 5,259 ratings · 504 reviews · 65 distinct worksSimilar authors
This Time: New and Selected...

4.17 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions
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American Sonnets: Poems

3.85 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Lucky Life

4.26 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1977 — 5 editions
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Everything Is Burning: Poems

3.81 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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Last Blue: Poems

3.72 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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In Beauty Bright: Poems

3.21 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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What I Can't Bear Losing: N...

4.08 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Save the Last Dance: Poems

3.74 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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The Scotia Widows: Inside T...

3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Bread Without Sugar: Poems

4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
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“I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight
complete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets;
I am going to push it across three dark highways
or coast along under 600,000 faint stars.”
Gerald Stern, This Time: New and Selected Poems

“lucky life isn't one long string of horrors.”
gerald stern

“I think it's in Malone Dies that Beckett's creature is in a kind of prison or hospital. As I recall, he is visited twice a day, slop brought in and slop taken out. He has a stub of a pencil, a bit of paper. And he asks questions, ten, sven, I don't remember, "Why am I here?" "What day is it?" The last one, no. 10 maybe, says "Number your answers." This is not just desperation and clinging to something called 'reason'--by his fingertips--that is humanity, shit-smeared, hopeless, and mad humanity--in the face of all denial. Our work is about that. My work.”
Gerald Stern

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