
Calling from the Scaffold
Poems
Gary Gildner(Author)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Will be published approx. on 28. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-8229-6681-4 (ISBN)
Description
Calling from the Scaffold is a collection of poems about connecting and not connecting - or approaching the brink of connecting. It's about paying tribute and salvaging and gratitude. The voices vary in their longings: we hear from men and women, the young and no longer young. Nature often is there to help them out.
Reviews / Votes
Gary Gildner's poems possess us quietly, with vivid, heartfelt tales of mountain landscape, family, and friends. Deeply human, ever compassionate, he can feel so close to a character as to speak for her, as in an ambitious sequence of a nun who recalls her past. Gildner engages us with an ear tuned to the music of the line and to the speech of his beloved West, authentic and as fresh as mountain air. -- Grace Schulman, author of Without a Claim Calling from the Scaffold, Gary Gildner's ninth book of poems, finds our poet full of the fearless wit and good cheer that we have come to treasure from him. In thirty new poems-lean, lyrical, narrative-forward, crisp as mountain rivers-he traces the contours of memory, family, love, and loss. Here are rodeos and black-and-white movies, Western owls and the haunted 'dun-colored hallways' of schools and family homes-a wide landscape of familiar scenes deepened, made strangely true again, through the poet's masterful art. Reading a Gary Gildner poem is like 'a good rain [that] rinses the garden.' -- David Baker, author of Swift: New and Selected PoemsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-6681-4 (9780822966814)
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E-Book
02/2022
University of Pittsburgh Press
€21.99
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Person
Gary Gildner is a nationally recognized poet and writer, whose books include Somewhere Geese are Flying, Blue Like the Heavens,The Second Bridge, and The Warsaw Sparks. He has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes; Gary was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to both Poland and Czechoslovakia. Gildner lives in Idaho's Clearwater Mountains.