Gerald Stern
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Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Jewish-American poet. His work was widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life and a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has been given many prestigious awards for his writing, including a National Book Award for poetry in 1998. For many years he taught poetry writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Stern retired in 1995.
Works
- The Naming of Beasts
- Rejoicings
- Lucky Life
- The Red Coal
- Paradise Poems
- Lovesick
- Two Long Poems
- Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems
- Bread Without Sugar
- Odd Mercy
- This Time: New and Selected Poems
- Last Blue
- American Sonnets
- Not God After All
- Everything Is Burning
External links
- Publisher's Page: Gerald Stern (http://www.nortonpoets.com/sterng.htm#books)
- Academy of American Poets Page: Gerald Stern (http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/231)