Gerald Stern bibliography

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

Poetry collections

• The Naming of Beasts (Omaha: Cummington Press, 1972)
• 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^[1]
• 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^[2]
• 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)

Poems

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) ISBN 9781595340542
• Stealing History (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2012) ISBN 9781595341419

Critical studies

• 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.)^[3] The entire issue was dedicated to this lengthy poem, Stern's first major published work.

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