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A View from the Tenth Decade
In Death Watch, the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate h...
“Pure movement of mind, passion, knowledge.” —Juan Felipe Herrera Galaxy Love spans countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, histor...
Selected Poems
A selection of poems by Gerald Stern....
Poems
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In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingl...
The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose “terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged” (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle). In Sa...
"Stern's unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters."--Philadelphia Inquirer...
Engaging coming-of-age essays from one of America's most-beloved poets...
How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought s uit against the coal company--and won
The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed ove...
The Log-book of a Pioneer
Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal
On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of East...
"For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."—Library Jo...
The Log-Book of a Pioneer
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
Poems deal with mortality, language, travel, farewells, love, artists, and friendship...
How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--and Won
One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave o...
“The work of an American master.”—World Literature Today The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness ...
Stern is a poet of ferocious heart and rasping sweetness. The tone is so unusual and right that if it weren't for Stern's making it manifest and avail...
A Poem
The sixth edition in the Quarternote Chapbook series by chancellor of the Academy of American Poets....
The Story of the Survivors' Unprecedented Lawsuit
Behind-the-scenes account by the attorney from the Washington D.C. law firm that represented the Buffalo Creek Disaster survivors in a lawsuit. There ...
The Facts
"Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."—Booklist...
A masterful long poem from one of our great American poets. Gerald Stern's long poem I. is an extraordinary and wild compilation of poetic modes, mood...
"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."—Ploughshares, Editor's Choice...
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize...
Poems, 1966-1972
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 m...
Notes from a Life
The poet reflects on his life, including growing up Jewish in Pittsburgh, the literary scene in Paris during the 1950s, and his indignation over socia...
In the late 50s after an unsuccessful stint in college, Larry Fink dropped out and began an odyssey of hitchhiking through America. Striking out that ...