Particles: New and Selected Poems

Particles: New and Selected Poems

by Dan Gerber
Particles: New and Selected Poems

Particles: New and Selected Poems

by Dan Gerber

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Overview

"Gerber has a gentle touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that can be smart, funny, wise—sometimes all at the same time."—Library Journal

"[Gerber] is one of the most adept and accessible of the poets who explore the meaning of humans' relation with earth and existence itself."—ForeWord

Into a frenzied world that hurtles ever faster somewhere, Dan Gerber's poetry offers a necessary and reflective presence. Drawing upon eight previous collections, and including a book-length selection of new poems, this retrospective tunes its senses to the natural world and a provenance that includes the influence of Buddhism, English Romanticism, and a deep reading of Rainer Maria Rilke's oeuvre. Pastoral and expansive, Gerber's poetry is concerned with the universe just outside each of our windows—the immediately viewable landscape in front of us and the mysterious vastness beyond.

From "Dark Matter":

The visible drapes itself around the invisible,
the way my jacket takes its shape from my shoulders.
An unseen gravity whirls near the center of our galaxy,
an unseen heart near the center of the bodies in which we desire.
I seldom think of Neptune out there, way beyond my pointing to it on a summer night . . .

Dan Gerber is the author of eight collections of poetry, three novels, a book of short stories, and two books of nonfiction. A former professional race-car driver, he has traveled extensively as a journalist, particularly in Africa. He lives in Santa Ynez, California.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781556595257
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 09/12/2017
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dan Gerber: Dan Gerber is the author of eight collections of poetry, three novels, a book of short stories, and two books of nonfiction. A former professional race-car driver, he has traveled extensively as a journalist, particularly in Africa. His books have earned a Michigan Author Award and the Mark Twain Award. He lives in Santa Ynez, California.

Table of Contents

Particles 3

from The Revenant (1971)

The Freeze 13

In Michigan 14

The Revenant 16

Two Clouds 17

In Ruts and Stars 18

A Mask 19

from A Year's Turning 20

For Basil Bunting 27

Poem to Be Given a Seafaring Title at a Later Date 28

Waters School Road 29

from Exposures at f/22 30

from Departure (1973)

The Cache 35

Notes from the Underground 36

from The Chinese Poems (1978)

from Letters to a Distant Friend 40

from Snow on the Backs of Animals (1986)

In the Winter Dark 49

The Way Back 50

Speaking to Horses 51

Return 53

The View from the Pasture 54

December 55

Homecoming 56

The Sanatorium 57

Burning the Last Logs of Winter 58

Journal Entry 59

For Randall Jarrell 60

Tuesday in Key West 61

Parzival 62

The Third Week of July 63

Thousand Moon Lake 66

The Line 68

This October in Fremont, Michigan 70

Afterwords 71

The Man Who Doesn't Change 72

In 1948 in Chicago 73

Adumbratio 74

The Life of the Fox 75

Snow on the Backs of Animals 77

from A Last Bridge Home (1992)

Someone 81

Why I Don't Take Naps in the Afternoon 82

A Last Bridge Home 83

This Harmony 84

from Trying to Catch the Horses (1999)

Trying to Catch the Horses 87

The Trees, the Grass, the Leaves, the River 88

A Tree on the Prairie in Mid-October 89

Walking Out Alone 90

A Time of the Hoppers 91

On My Walk 92

Counting Treasures 93

The Bear on Main Street 94

Tarawa 95

South of Marrakech 96

Flight 97

Adrift 98

The Cool Earth 99

Spirit Harness 100

Psalm 101

Dust 102

Advice from the Burglar 103

The Favorite Child 104

Quite by Chance 105

A Face at the Window 106

Plum Rain 108

My Father's Fields 109

Wild Horses 111

from A Primer on Parallel Lives (2007)

In Praise of Humberto Tapia 115

Tracking the Moment 116

Doing Nothing 120

Six Miles Up 121

A Small Dark Thing 122

Out Walking in Early November 123

A Theory of Wind 124

Madam Wei Remembers 126

Candor Seeks Its Own Unforeseeable Occasions 127

The Call 128

Eclipse 129

WWII 130

The Rain Poured Down 131

Then 132

On Being Sent Away to School 133

The Day I Fled My Twelve-Year-Old Life 134

Sail Baby Sail 135

Dorothy 136

Lying under the Oaks on a Morning in June 137

Six Kinds of Gratitude 138

Facing North 140

Five Poems: Off the Beaten Track 141

2004 143

Heroes 144

A Primer on Parallel Lives 145

At Any Moment 146

Contemplating My Reflection in a Puddle on the Last Day of the Twentieth Century 147

To Study the "Way 148

After the Rain 149

Some Distance 150

from Sailing Through Cassiopeia (2012)

In Our Rented Cabin 155

Barking and Howling 156

Crocus 158

from Roses in the Cool Cafe 159

Call Me 160

Under the Pines 161

Groundhog Day 162

Refuge 164

Postscript 165

Dyslexic 166

Polio 167

Advice 168

Anna Karenina 169

Old Dog 170

To God Himself in the Passing Hours 171

On My Seventieth Birthday 172

Nostalgia 176

Often I Imagine the Earth 177

Snail 178

Wang Wei in His Leisure Hours 179

Art 181

"The dark is always at the top" 182

To a Tick 184

Dusk 185

Sailing through Cassiopeia 186

New Poems

A Few Words 191

Spring Suite 192

Awake 194

Pigeons 195

The Work of the Bees 197

More and More 198

To Pain 199

Climate 200

Bliss 201

Pebble 202

Foreign 203

Dust II 204

Dark Matter 205

The Turkey Vulture 206

Fire Season 207

Letter to Jim about Woodpeckers 208

Waiting for My Father to Speak 209

Infinite in All Directions 210

Second Look 211

Voyage 213

Nirvana 214

The Weather Channel 215

This World Too 216

Spring Creek 217

Summers with Martha 218

Each to Each 220

Age 221

Cloud Shadows 222

Finally, This Rain 223

New Life 224

Aviatrix 225

The Andromeda Galaxy 226

A Flea in Late Life 227

Neruda Falls 228

Old Books 230

To Jim from the River 231

Only This Morning 233

The Atom of the Actual 234

From a Ridge on Figueroa Mountain 235

Once Again, in August 236

Brief Exquisite 237

Index of Titles 239

Index of First Lines 242

About the Author 247

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