Blue Like the Heavens: New and Selected Poems

Gary Gildner

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"Aliveness is Gary Gildner's striking quality," Crystal McLean writes in the magazine New Letters, and thise selection of Gary Gildner's previously published poems, plus eighteen new poems, demonstrates the aptness of that perception. Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Blue Like the Heavens also possess great emotional depth. Readers who complain about the obscurity of contemporary American poetry will delight in this book.

Book Details

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publish Date: Jun 30th, 1984
Pages: 160
Language: English
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Dimensions: 7.97in - 5.56in - 0.54in - 0.40lb
EAN: 9780822953586
Categories: • American - General

About the Author

Gary Gildner is the author of nearly two dozen poetry collections and works of prose and professor emeritus of English at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Among the many awards Gildner has received for his poetry and short stories are the Robert Frost Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, two National Endowment Fellowships, five Yaddo Fellowships, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and the William Carlos Williams Prize.

Praise for this book

"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."
--Booklist