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Poems look at high school sports, failure, nature, death, family life, reincarnation, the past, religion, and parenthood
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Gary Gildner is a nationally recognized poet and writer, whose books include "Somewhere Geese are Flying", "Blue Like the Heavens", "The Second Bridge", and "The Warsaw Sparks". He has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes; Gary was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to both Poland and Czechoslovakia. Gildner lives in Idaho s Clearwater Mountains.
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"Never obscure or self-consciously 'poetical,' and very often amusing, Gildner's lines are sure to provide multiple shocks (and laughs) of recognition, as he retraces choice patches all over the American scene. . . . Both the author and his subjects are fine people to spend some time with."
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- PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0822953587
- ISBN 13 9780822953586
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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