Product Description: From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet’s past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality...read more

Product Description: For decades one of our most honored and beloved poets, Gerald Stern is also, it turns out, a prolific doodler. Sometimes charming, sometimes scathing, sometimes both, the odd little figures and scenes here are reproduced from drawings on napkins, hotel stationary, and the margins of what seem to be lecture handouts...read more

“Gerald Stern is the most expansively celebratory poet in years. He is akin to a natural force.”―Georgia Review The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern’s previous work, move into an area of knowledge―even wisdom―that reflects a long life of writing, teaching, and activism. They are poems of grief and anger, but the music is delicate and moving.from “In Beauty Bright” In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake’s lily and though an angel he looked absurd dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright store wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping, nor was it useless―you who know it know how useful it is―and how he would be dead in a minute if he were to lose it though how do you lose a lily?

Product Description: In the tradition of essayists like Montaigne and Emerson, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling essays Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical...read more

Product Description: “Stern’s unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters.”―Philadelphia InquirerEarly Collected Poems gathers the poems from the first six books of Gerald Stern’s body of work. A master poet, Stern has sought new language for the overlooked, neglected, and unseen facets of human experience...read more

Product Description: The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose “terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged” (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle). In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal―yet always universal, and always surprising―poems, rich with humor and insight...read more

Product Description: Gerald Stern’s poetry has been variously praised for its visionary quality, its scope and passion, but most especially for its wholehearted embrace of life. Stern’s special manner of joie de vivre is immediately evident in his prose pieces as well...read more

Product Description: “The Preacher’s a poem with polyphonic voices, enormous range, and many of Stern’s familiar icons: his animism, his city grit, his philosophical fragments, his irony and justice quest, his reaching for the strain of memory.”—Ira Sadoff Gerald Stern is the author of fourteen poetry books, including This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the 1998 National Book Award...read more

Product Description: A new translation of a poet widely considered one of the most important of the twentieth century. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has written some of the most powerful poems in history. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document...read more

Product Description: "Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."―Ploughshares, Editor's Choice Gerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech...read more

Product Description: The author says in his introduction: "These aphorisms, petite narratives, whatever they are, were written over a period of two weeks in the Spring of 2002. They represent my feelings during that time, feelings that were angry, arch, focused, political, and unified...read more

A thirteenth collection by the National Book Award-winning author includes fifty-nine 'Stern Sonnets' that consist of an average of twenty lines rather than the traditional fourteen and follow such themes as time and loss, the dichotomy of light and darkness, and the possibility of joy. Reprint.

The poet reflects on his life, including growing up Jewish in Pittsburgh, the literary scene in Paris during the 1950s, and his indignation over social injustices.

Product Description: "Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."―Booklist Following his National Book Award winner, This Time, Gerald Stern further explores history and memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world...read more

Product Description: The author describes one of his major poetic themes as being light versus darkness. This collection reflects this theme. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers a selection of the author's poems from his persons collections, including verses from 'Rejoicings,' 'Lucky Life,' 'Stepping Out of Poetry,' 'The Red Coal,' 'Lovesick,' 'Bread Without Sugar,' and 'Odd Mercy,' as well as newer works

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

Product Description: Book by Stern, Gerald (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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

Product Description: Stories and Poems. Contributors include: Maggie Anderson, Robert Antoni, Amico Aspertini, Robin Behn, Marvin Bell, Stephen Berg, Michael Biggins, Deborah Brass, Hayden Carruth, Christopher Davis, Ron De Maris, Chard deNiord, Elizabeth Dietz, Deborah Digges, Stuart Dischell, Philip Dow, Jack Driscoll, Lynn Emmanuel, Kenneth Fifer, Jeanne Foster, Jack Gilbert, Patricia Goedicke, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Jill Gonet, Allen Grossman, Lee Meitzen Grue, David Gullette, Corrinne Hales, James Baker Hall, Patricia Henley, Brenda Hillman, Edward Hirsch, T...read more

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

Product Description: Book by Stern, Gerald

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