Gerald Stern, prize-winning US poet who explored 'the idea of a Jew,' dies at 97

New Jersey's first poet laureate wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about childhood, death and the divisions between rich and poor and Jews and non-Jews in Pittsburgh

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