Books by Gerald Stern

Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern.

Galaxy Love showcases the voice of a beloved and acclaimed poet, celebrating the passions and rhythms of life.

The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).

"Ruthless and occasionally outrageous, Stern's literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery."-Ploughshares, Editor's Choice

"For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."-Library Journal

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

A time now almost lost-America and Europe of the 1940s and 1950s-indelibly recalled in prose pieces by a celebrated poet.

"Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."-Booklist