Gerald Stern bibliography

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) , OCLC 10810275
• Lucky Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977) , OCLC 648601211
• The Red Coal, poetry, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981) , OCLC 6916460
• Paradise Poems (New York: Random House, 1984) , OCLC 10430780
• Lovesick (New York: Perennial Library, 1986) , OCLC 14931153
• Two Long Poems (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990)
• Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (New York: Harper & Row, 1990) , OCLC 20356513 – finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
• Bread without Sugar (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992) , OCLC 24174929
• Odd Mercy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994) , OCLC 31971252
• This Time: New and Selected Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998) , OCLC 37928494 – winner of the National Book Award
• Last Blue (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000) , OCLC 42771964
• American Sonnets (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002) , OCLC 48434901 – shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize
• Everything Is Burning (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005) , OCLC 57730836
• Save the Last Dance: Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008) , OCLC 181139506
• Early Collected Poems, 1965-1992 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010) , OCLC 449865672
• In Beauty Bright (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012) , OCLC 789661621
• Divine Nothingness, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) , OCLC 869437880
• Blessed As We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000—2018, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020)

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Nietzsche	2012
Medicinal	2013
Warbler	2020
What 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.