A Primer on Parallel Lives

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Dan Gerber's poetry is influenced by Zen attentiveness, childhood memories, and deep connections with nature.;ONE; In Praise of Umberto Tapia; Tracking the Moment; Bodhisattva; Doing Nothing; Realism; Times Alone; Fledgling; Six Miles Up; A Small Dark Thing; Out Walking in Early November; A Theory of Wind; In the Shade of the Oaks; Getting It Right, or Wrong; Autumn on the Plains of Idaho; There Is No Self That Suffers Rebirth; Madam Wei Remembers; Once in Nineveh; Candor Seeks Its Own Unforeseeable Occasions; The Call; Revenant; Late Summer; Just before Sunset; The Changes in Santa Ynez; TWO ; Eclipse; Fears of Childhood; Momma's Boy; One Sunday Night; WWII; Christmas Eve 1944. ONE In Praise of Umberto Tapia Tracking the Moment Bodhisattva Doing Nothing Realism Times Alone Fledgling Six Miles Up A Small Dark Thing Out Walking in Early November A Theory of Wind In the Shade of the Oaks Getting It Right, or Wrong Autumn on the Plains of Idaho There Is No Self That Suffers Rebirth Madam Wei Remembers Once in Nineveh Candor Seeks Its Own Unforeseeable Occasions The Call Revenant Late Summer Just before Sunset The Changes in Santa Ynez TWO Eclipse Fears of Childhood Momma's Boy One Sunday Night WWII Christmas Eve 1944. The Rain Poured DownThen Mountaineer-Third Grade On Being Sent Away to School The Day I Fled My Twelve-year-old Life Her Eyes Photograph of My Father A Star at Dawn, a Bubble in a Stream The Man Jumping The Distance Between Us Sail Baby Sail Dorothy Lying under the Oaks on a Morning in June THREE Stag's Head: Albrecht Dürer, 1504 My Life with the Muse Sometimes Six Kinds of Gratitude Facing North Five Poems: Off the Beaten Track The Oaks in the Fog The Local News Domestic Mornings after a Marriage Secrets Grass Mountain Dear Reader The Sonnets to Orpheus. Watching the Leopard at the Chester ZooEagle on His Own 2004 Heroes A Primer on Parallel Lives When I Have Doubts At Any Moment Contemplating My Reflection in a Puddle on theLast Day of the Twentieth Century A Walk in the Clouds One Last Wish To Study the Way After the Rain Some Distance About the Author Other Books by Dan Gerber Links Acknowledgments Copyright Special Thanks.