A primer on parallel lives / Dan Gerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerber, Dan, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 p.)

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dan Gerber's poetry is influenced by Zen attentiveness, childhood memories, and deep connections with nature.

Contents:

Contents; ONE; In Praise of Umberto Tapia; Tracking the Moment; Bodhisattva; Doing Nothing; Realism; Times Alone; Fledgling; Six Miles Up; A Small Dark Thing; Out Walking in Early November; A Theory of Wind; In the Shade of the Oaks; Getting It Right, or Wrong; Autumn on the Plains of Idaho; There Is No Self That Suffers Rebirth; Madam Wei Remembers; Once in Nineveh; Candor Seeks Its Own Unforeseeable Occasions; The Call; Revenant; Late Summer; Just before Sunset; The Changes in Santa Ynez; TWO; Eclipse; Fears of Childhood; Momma's Boy; One Sunday Night; WWII; Christmas Eve 1944

The Rain Poured DownThen; Mountaineer-Third Grade; On Being Sent Away to School; The Day I Fled My Twelve-year-old Life; Her Eyes; Photograph of My Father; A Star at Dawn, a Bubble in a Stream; The Man Jumping; The Distance Between Us; Sail Baby Sail; Dorothy; Lying under the Oaks on a Morning in June; THREE; Stag's Head: Albrecht Dürer, 1504; My Life with the Muse; Sometimes; Six Kinds of Gratitude; Facing North; Five Poems: Off the Beaten Track; The Oaks in the Fog; The Local News; Domestic; Mornings after a Marriage; Secrets; Grass Mountain; Dear Reader; The Sonnets to Orpheus

Watching the Leopard at the Chester ZooEagle on His Own; 2004; Heroes; A Primer on Parallel Lives; When I Have Doubts; At Any Moment; Contemplating My Reflection in a Puddle on theLast Day of the Twentieth Century; A Walk in the Clouds; One Last Wish; To Study the Way; After the Rain; Some Distance; About the Author; Other Books by Dan Gerber; Links; Acknowledgments; Copyright; Special Thanks

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-61932-068-1

OCLC:

823388289