{"product_id":"9781619320345","title":"Sailing through Cassiopeia","description":"\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\u003cp\u003e\"The thing itself carries the weight of [Gerber's] poems, which recall the deep imagery of Vallejo, Neruda, and Wright.\"—\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The Word is the Picture of Things\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI praised flight and got stuck.\u003cbr\u003eI praised gravity and got lost.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlong the way my life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edecays, and ripens . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151696445680,"sku":"9781619320345","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619320345_p0.jpg?v=1763856572","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619320345","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}