A Primer on Parallel Lives

Dan Gerber is a master of layered, bittersweet clarity and subtle allusion. In his seventh book of poems, he writes about the residue of childhood misgivings and fears, the oak savannah landscape of California’s central coast, and his near-mystical relationship with the natural world. His poems read as if he sees Jeffers’s hawks, walks Machado’s hills, and answers Rilke’s call to change your life.