List of the published work of Gerald Stern, American poet.

Poetry Collections

Rejoicings: Selected Poems 1966-72 (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973) , Lucky Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977) , The Red Coal, poetry, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981) , Paradise Poems (New York: Random House, 1984) , Lovesick (New York: Perennial Library, 1986) , Two Long Poems (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990) Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (New York: Harper & Row, 1990) , – finalist for the Pulitzer Prize"Poetry". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-04-08. Bread without Sugar (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992) , Odd Mercy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994) , This Time: New and Selected Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998) , – winner of the National Book Award"National Book Awards – 1972". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-07. (With acceptance speech by Stern and essay by Ross Gay from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Last Blue (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000) , American Sonnets (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002) , – shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize Everything Is Burning (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005) , Save the Last Dance: Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008) , Early Collected Poems, 1965-1992 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010) , In Beauty Bright (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012) , Divine Nothingness, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) , Blessed As We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000—2018, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020) List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNietzsche2012 Medicinal2013 Warbler2020What brings me here?2013

Chapbooks Not God After All (Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2004) The Preacher (Sarabande Books, 2007)

Collected essays What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004) Selected Essays (New York: Harper & Row, 1988) What I Can't Bear Losing (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2009) Stealing History (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2012) Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2017, )

Critical studies and reviews of Stern's work The Pineys, in The Journal of the Rutgers University Library, Vol. XXXII, no. 2 (June 1969). (New Brunswick, N.J.: Associated Friends of the Rutgers University Library, 1969.) The entire issue was dedicated to this lengthy poem, Stern's first major published work.

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