Authors and Illustrators Database

Dan Gerber

Born: 08/12/1940  Grand Rapids, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
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]

Writings

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

Awards:

Name Date
The Society of Midland Authors Award for poetry for Sailing through Cassiopeia 2013
Michigan Notable Book: A Primer on Parallel Lives 2008
Mark Twain Award for distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature 2001
Michigan Author Award, Alpena County Library/Michigan Center for the Book
- In recognition of an outstanding body of fiction work by a Michigan Author 		1992

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd ed. 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed. 1980
Contemporary Authors
-  Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 33-36R (1979) Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 41 (1994) (2002), 101 		1979-2002
Directory of American Fiction Writers
Directory of American Poets

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 1962

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Professional racing driver 1999-2006
Michigan State University 1970
Poet-in-Residence Grand Valley State College Allendale, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1969
Poet, novelist, essayist
Teacher(two years) Fremont, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Lecturer National Endowment and Academy of American Poets various schools
Co-founder, with Jim Harrison Sumac (literary magazine)

Other Resources:

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