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Many of these fifty-eight poems have appeared in the finest literary magazines and anthologies. Long recognized as a meditative poet with an almost mystical connection to animals and the natural world, Gerber begins this collection with a quote from Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh: \"Contemplate seeing your bodily form present before you - in the trees, the grass and leaves, the river\".  In the manner of Rilke and Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gerber's unadorned poems are acts of discovery, inviting us into a place deep within ourselves through a conversation between human consciousness and the consciousness of things. In the title poem \"Trying to Catch the Horses\", the poet achieves his apparent goal not through will or ambition, but by letting go, to become \"a clump of grass they (the horses) must graze\", and to reach up and touch \"the sky itself as far as it goes\". In two of the book's most riveting poems, Gerber focuses his imagination on both our century's World Wars, envisioning a burst of shrapnel as a flight of blackbirds, and questions the entire enterprise of a great battle in the Pacific and how \"we never thought \/ of fish in the sea and how \/ this was their home though not their war...\".  Whether Gerber writes about horses or war, hiking a canyon or encountering a wolf, his backdrop is a profound silence against which these poems become necessary song.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50363943747857,"sku":"CIN0870135341G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0870135341.jpg?v=1751331028"},{"product_id":"last-bridge-home-book-dan-gerber-9780944439289","title":"A Last Bridge Home","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50373151588625,"sku":"CIN0944439284A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50373155094801,"sku":"CIN0944439284G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51897246286097,"sku":"CIN0944439284VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0944439284.jpg?v=1751203619"},{"product_id":"primer-on-parallel-lives-book-dan-gerber-9781556592539","title":"A Primer on Parallel Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Dan Gerber tenderly reels his readers through the 'beautiful movie' he calls the passing of time on earth in a language completely unadorned and Zen-like in its quietude. The thing itself carries the weight of these poems, which recall the deep imagery of Vallejo, Neruda and Wright.\"--\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Gerber's got a Spanish soul. A bloody, dusty, old Spanish soul. He's got Machado, Lorca, and Jiménez all rolled up in him. And when he does the lyric, or the meditative, it speaks to the universe and to us.\"--\u003ci\u003eLine Break\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDan Gerber is a master of layered, bittersweet imagery. In his seventh book of poems, he writes of childhood misgivings and fears, the oak savannah landscape of California's central coast, and a near-mystical relationship with nature. As novelist John Nichols once wrote of Gerber's poetry, \"Dan Gerber has an exquisitely muted, yet profound understanding of tragedy, love, family, and the haunting vagaries of nature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Some Distance\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI wanted to be a stone in the field,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003esimply that,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eand then I wanted to be the grass around it,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eand then the cattle grazing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eunder the too blue sky,\u003cbr\u003e and then the blue,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ewhich has of itself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eno substance,\u003cbr\u003e and yet goes on and on and on.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Gerber\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a dozen books of poetry, fiction, essays, and memoir. 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Via delicious imagery, masterful pacing, and long-sanded language, Gerber...maintains a continual curiosity and gentleness of spirit despite his keen awareness of the world's inevitable horrors.\" --\u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003ePoetry East\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \"Dark Matter\":\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe visible drapes itself around the invisible,\u003cbr\u003e the way my jacket takes its shape from my shoulders.\u003cbr\u003e An unseen gravity whirls\u003cbr\u003e near the center of our galaxy,\u003cbr\u003e an unseen heart near the center\u003cbr\u003e of the bodies in which we desire.\u003cbr\u003e I seldom think of Neptune out there, way beyond\u003cbr\u003e my pointing to it on a summer night . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDan 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. 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