Sailing through Cassiopeia by Dan Gerber (English) Paperback Book

Description: Sailing through Cassiopeia by Dan Gerber "Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets." -Annie Dillard FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets." -Annie Dillard"The poems in Dan Gerbers latest collection, Sailing through Cassiopeia, exist in a lyrical remove from time. Via delicious imagery, masterful pacing, and long-sanded language, Gerber...maintains a continual curiosity and gentleness of spirit despite his keen awareness of the worlds inevitable horrors." -Orion"As quiet and modest in their display as his poems sometimes seem, their agenda is bold. Gerber, the author of seven collections of poetry that from the beginning lovingly render physical detail, believes that something of great significance occurs when an object is rightly seen.... Mindfulness, seeing things as they really are, both beauty and ugliness, informs the authentic life, and defines the aesthetic response to that life."-Poetry East"Where Gerber really starts to differentiate is in his approach: he frequently focuses with sustained intensity on something fairly ordinary or easily observed until it leads him to the unseen or not so easily discerned. He is really a metaphysical poet in physical garb."-World Literature Today "In Sailing through Cassiopeia Gerbers decades of apprenticeship are palpable in a book so stunning-so tenderly branching into the world even as it tunnels inward-that it is difficult to put down." -George Kalamaras, Rain Taxi"Gerber has a gentle touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that can be smart, funny, wise-sometimes all at the same time."-Library JournalDan Gerbers mastery of layered imagery and crystalline vision marry European Romanticism with American Zen. These meditative poems engage the natural landscape of Californias oak savannas and memories of childhood, while calling upon an array of literary progenitors-from Robinson Jeffers and Rainer Maria Rilke to the classics of the Chinese canon-exploring what it means to be linguistically alive in an animal world. As ForeWord magazine wrote, "Dan Gerbers poems are quick, graceful, alert to their surroundings, and rarely wasting a motion.""The Word is the Picture of Things"Looking down at the lights of Earth,its constellations of lives,however unaware,signal back to the watching galaxiesthat have their seeing inside us.I praised flight and got stuck.I praised gravity and got lost.Along the way my lifedecays, and ripens . . . Dan Gerber is the author of seven collections of poetry, three novels, a book of short stories, and two books of nonfiction. A former racecar 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. Author Biography Dan Gerber: Dan Gerber is the author of seven collections of poetry, three novels, and book of short stories, and two books of nonfiction. A former 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. Promotional galleys to pre-pub media130+ review copies and press material sent to key mediafollow-up contactsbook pitched in person by in-house publicist to trade mediafull-page feature in in-house catalogcatalog sent to individual poetry readers (15k) and to purchased lists of poetry teachers (5k) and academic libraries (2k)featured on Press websitedisplayed at appropriate conferencesselect print advertisingsubmitted to all relevant awards and prizes Description for Sales People The only American poet who also had a career as a race-car driver and was honored with a limited edition replica of his car Dan Gerber is an ordained Zen priest Ted Kooser and Jim Harrisons book Braided Creek (Copper Canyon, 2003) is dedicated to Gerber Gerbers work has appeared in many national publications, including The New Yorker; Poetry; Playboy; Sports Illustrated; The Nation Some events that have undoubtedly affected Gerbers work: "The near-death experience of my crash at Riverside is one of those, and even more traumatic was my divorce from and the subsequent death of my wife of 31 years. These are points of departure around which you think of everything else as having happened before or after." Details ISBN1556594089 Author Dan Gerber Short Title SAILING THROUGH CASSIOPEIA Language English ISBN-10 1556594089 ISBN-13 9781556594083 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Residence CA, US Birth 1940 Country of Publication United States Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S. NZ Release Date 2013-01-17 US Release Date 2013-01-17 UK Release Date 2013-01-17 Pages 110 Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-01-17 Audience General AU Release Date 2013-03-11 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:140166582;

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