•  Stern won the National Book Award in 1999 for This Time: New and Selected Poems. This collection contains selections of Stern’s best poetry from his seven previous volumes as well as new poems, and the collection shows remarkable consistency in theme and style through the years.

•  Everything Is Burning is Stern’s 2006 collection of poetry, published when the poet was eighty-one years old. As he did before, Stern based the poems on his own life and his Jewish-American heritage, but there seems to be a wider range of emotions and subjects in this volume.

•  In 2003, Stern published a memoir, What I Can’t Bear Losing: Notes from a Life, a reminiscence that includes explanations about the development of his writing style.

•  Since Stern is often...