Dan Gerber tenderly reels his readers through the beautiful movie hecalls the passing of time on earth in a language completely unadorned and Zenlike in its qui... » 

Dan Gerber tenderly reels his readers through the beautiful movie hecalls the passing of time on earth in a language completely unadorned and Zenlike in its quietude. The thing itself carries the weight of these poems whichrecall the deep imagery of Vallejo Neruda and Wright.Rain Taxi Dan Gerber isa master of layered bittersweet imagery. In his seventh book of poems hewrites of childhood misgivings and fears the oak savannah landscape ofCalifornias central coast and a nearmystical relationship with nature. Asnovelist John Nichols once wrote of Gerbers poetry Dan Gerber has anexquisitely muted yet profound understanding of tragedy love family and thehaunting vagaries of nature. Some Distance I wanted to be a stone inthe field simply that and then I wanted to be the grass around it and thenthe cattle grazing under the too blue sky and then the blue which has ofitself no substance and yet goes on and on and on. Dan Gerber is theauthor of a dozen books of poetry fiction essays and memoir. He has earnedthe Mark Twain Award Book of the Year honors from ForeWord Magazine andinclusion in The Best American Poetry. He lives in Santa Ynez California. «