{"product_id":"a-primer-on-parallel-lives-9781556592539","title":"A Primer on Parallel Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Some Distance”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003eand then the blue,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ewhich has of itself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eno substance,\u003cbr\u003eand yet goes on and on and on.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDan Gerber\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a dozen books of poetry, fiction, essays, and memoir. He has earned the Mark Twain Award, Book of the Year honors from \u003ci\u003eForeWord Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e and inclusion in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Santa Ynez, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041319354711,"sku":"9781556592539","price":16.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556592539.jpg?v=1750949798","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-primer-on-parallel-lives-9781556592539","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}