{"product_id":"sailing-through-cassiopeia-9781556594083","title":"Sailing through Cassiopeia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.\" —Annie Dillard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The poems in Dan Gerber’s latest collection, \u003ci\u003eSailing through Cassiopeia,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 world’s inevitable horrors.” —\u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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. He is really a metaphysical poet in physical garb.”—\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “In \u003ci\u003eSailing through Cassiopeia\u003c\/i\u003e Gerber’s 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, \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gerber has a gentle touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that can be smart, funny, wise—sometimes all at the same time.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDan Gerber''s mastery of layered imagery and crystalline vision marry European Romanticism with American Zen. These meditative poems engage the natural landscape of California''s 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 \u003ci\u003eForeWord\u003c\/i\u003e magazine wrote, \"Dan Gerber''s poems are quick, graceful, alert to their surroundings, and rarely wasting a motion.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The Word is the Picture of Things\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLooking down at the lights of Earth,\u003cbr\u003eits constellations of lives,\u003cbr\u003ehowever unaware,\u003cbr\u003esignal back to the watching galaxies\u003cbr\u003ethat have their seeing inside us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI praised flight and got stuck.\u003cbr\u003eI praised gravity and got lost.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlong the way my life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edecays, and ripens . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Gerber\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041319846231,"sku":"9781556594083","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556594083.jpg?v=1750949799","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sailing-through-cassiopeia-9781556594083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}