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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.
"One of our most influential and beloved poets, fifty years after the publication of his first book, Gerald Stern is still in love, still angry, still outraged, and still funny. Blessed as We Were is the expression of a full life of loving, a crowning achievement, the luminous offering of an American original."
Gerald Stern (1925—2022), the author of nineteen volumes of poetry, was awarded the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among many other honors.