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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 |
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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
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