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Danger & Maddness is a refreshing collaboration project between two distinct poets with creative styles touching on the dark and macabre, the wild and whimsical, and the romantic and soulful. With poetic styles in free verse, rhyme and meter, poetic experimentation, and more, this book is a journey for the mind, the heart, and the soul. This compilation features over 100 poems inspired by personal demons, haunting events, and deep emotions with a vibrant sense of humor. Written by two distinct poets with widely varied backgrounds, Danger & Maddness contains themes of what it means to be human, the essence of suffering, and the struggle to make sense of a nonsensical reality. This is a book for adolescents and adults to explore the difficult complexities of life.
This novel is one of Dan Gerber's triumphs. From the author of American Atlas, Out of Control, and Grass Fires, Gerber's A Voice From the River followed Grass Fires to prominence on national bestseller lists. This novel once again affirms the Gerber's solid reputation for writing about the confrontation of the Spirit World and what some consider to be the Last of Days.
"Gerber has a gentle touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that can be smart, funny, wise—sometimes all at the same time."—Library Journal "[Gerber] is one of the most adept and accessible of the poets who explore the meaning of humans' relation with earth and existence itself."—ForeWord Into a frenzied world that hurtles ever faster somewhere, Dan Gerber's poetry offers a necessary and reflective presence. 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....
A Second Life brings together several new pieces with the best of Dan Gerber's previously published essays and magazine stories, many of which have appeared in magazines such as Outside, Playboy, Sports Afield, and Sports Illustrated. Gerber limns his experience as a professional racing driver, journalist, sailor, and fisherman with a poet's eye and a novelist's gift for narrative, believing, as he states in his introduction, that our truest lives must be imagined. New essays in this collection include a meditative journal on the Arctic and an in-depth interview in which Gerber discusses the relationship of his artistic life with that as an explorer of the natural world. Also included are a ...
"Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets." —Annie Dillard
The Misadventures of Snowball is a medieval fantasy story about a hapless peasant and his minotaur companion. Through a series of strange adventures, the peasant, Gus, searches for his place in this world alongside the strange creature he travels with. It is a story about compassion, friendship, tolerance, discrimination, and finding one's place in this world amid adversity and turmoil. For ages 10+