Authors and Illustrators Database

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:
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