# Gerald Stern bibliography

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

## Poetry
### Collections

* The naming of beasts. Omaha: Cummington Press. 1973.
* Rejoicings: Selected Poems 1966-72 (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973) ISBN 9780915371013, OCLC 10810275
* Lucky Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977) ISBN 9780395258095, OCLC 648601211
* The Red Coal, poetry, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981) ISBN 9780395305423, OCLC 6916460
* Paradise Poems (New York: Random House, 1984) ISBN 9780394537856, OCLC 10430780
* Lovesick (New York: Perennial Library, 1986) ISBN 9780060961701, OCLC 14931153
* Two Long Poems (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990)
* Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (New York: Harper & Row, 1990) ISBN 9780060964559, OCLC 20356513 – finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
* Bread without Sugar (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992) ISBN 9780393030945, OCLC 24174929
* Odd Mercy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994) ISBN 9780393038798, OCLC 31971252
* This Time: New and Selected Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998) ISBN 9780393046403, OCLC 37928494 – winner of the National Book Award
* Last Blue (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000) ISBN 9780393321623, OCLC 42771964
* American Sonnets (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002) ISBN 9780393324969, OCLC 48434901 – shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize
* Everything Is Burning (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005) ISBN 9780393329162, OCLC 57730836
* Save the Last Dance: Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008) ISBN 9780393337310, OCLC 181139506
* Early Collected Poems, 1965-1992 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010) ISBN 9780393076660, OCLC 449865672
* In Beauty Bright (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012) ISBN 0393086445, OCLC 789661621
* Divine Nothingness, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) ISBN 0393243508, 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 |
| Nietzsche | 2012 | Stern, Gerald (February 13–20, 2012). "Nietzsche". The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 1. |
| Medicinal | 2013 | Stern, Gerald (February 4, 2013). "Medicinal". The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 46. p. 67. |
| Warbler | 2020 | Stern, Gerald (January 6, 2020). "Warbler". The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 43. p. 56. |
| What brings me here? | 2013 | Stern, Gerald (December 2, 2013). "What brings me here?". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 39. p. 34. |

## 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
* Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781595347848)

## 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.