A Primer on Parallel Lives

Poetry. In A PRIMER ON PARALLEL LIVES, Dan Gerber writes the residue of childhood misgivings and fear, illuminates the oak savanna landscape of California's central coast, and engages a near-mystical relationship with nature. "The clear directness of Dan Gerber's poetry has distinguished it since I began reading it in the early 70's. The purity of his language and the sharpness of his attention present landscape, event, and feeling as one. His latest work, with its lucid evocations of crucial moments of his childhood, has grown in assurance and achieves a transparent immediacy"-W.S. Merwin.