Born: 08/12/1940   Grand Rapids
Parents: Daniel F. and Dorothy Gerber
Children: Wendie, Frank, Tamara
Address(es):
Permanent :
Santa Ynez , CA 83422
Contact Information:
Phone : 805-686-5299
Email : [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Particles : new and selected poems	Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press	2017
	Sailing through Cassiopeia	Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press	2012
	“On My Seventieth Birthday”	Poetry	Adult	Rattle (online: http://www.rattle.com/on-my-seventieth-birthday-by-dan-gerber/)	2012
	A Primer on Parallel Lives - 2008 Michigan Notable Book	Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press	2007
	A Second Life: a Collected Nonfiction	Non Fiction	Adult	East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press	2001
	Trying to Catch the Horses: Poems	Poetry	Adult	East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press	1999
	A Last Bridge Home: New and Selected Poems	Poetry	Adult	Livingston, Mont. : Clark City Press	1992
	A Voice from the River: a Novel	Fiction	Adult	Livingston, Mont. : Clark City Press	1990
	Contemporary Michigan Poetry : Poems From the Third Coast - Anthology	Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI: Wayne State University	1988
	Grass Fires: Stories	Short Stories	Adult	Seattle, Wash. : Winn Books	1987
	Keener Sounds : Selected Poems from the Geogia Review - Included in Anthology	Poetry	Adult	University of Georgia Press	1987
	Snow on the Backs of Animals: Poems	Poetry	Adult	Seattle, Wash. : Winn Books	1986
	The Chinese Poems: Letters to a Distant Friend	Poetry	Adult	Fremont, Mich. : Sumac Press	1978
	Indy, the World's Fastest Carnival Ride - with photos by Heinz Kluetmeier.	Non Fiction	Adult	Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hal	1977
	Out of Control: a Novel	Fiction	Adult	Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall	1974
	American Atlas: a Novel	Fiction , Poetry	Adult	Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall	1973
	Departure	Poetry	Adult	Fremont, Mich., The Sumac Press	1973
	The Revenant	Poetry	Adult	Fremont, Mich., Sumac Press	1971
	Five Blind Men; Poems - With Jim Harrison and others	Poetry	Adult	Fremont, Mich., Sumac Press	1969
	Michigan signatures; an anthology of current Michigan poetry/Albert Drake - Includes poems by Hugh Fox, Dan Gerber, Jim Harrison, Joyce Carol Oates and others	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	[Madison, Wis.] Quixote Press	1969
	Other writings: - Contributor to many magazines such as Stony Brook, New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Partisan Review, The Nation, The Georgia Review.	Non Fiction , Poetry	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Gerber told Contemporary Authors, “In poetry as well as prose, I feel less a creator than an instrument of experience. I write what presents itself to me as necessary.”

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

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