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The End of Michelangelo

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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781556596599
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Copper Canyon Press
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  • Original Price: GBP 12.99
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 205 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature

Reading the poetry of Dan Gerber, we are summoned to this larger truth: Though we live in fraught times, on the tipping point of human self-destruction, we and our planet are still very much alive.

In one of his last sonnets, nearly five hundred years ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti confronted the paradox of our earthly existence: "Why beauty mixed with terror, feeds so strangely my desire." Reading The End of Michelangelo, we are similarly reminded that the very fact of being alive--experiencing our fleeting, fragile existence--is our only source of joy, our only avenue of consolation. These are poems that wake us up, revivify our desire to go on living despite our times, to counter our times; if poetry has a purpose, it may be exactly this. As T.H. White suggests, we can't save our world if we don't first savor it.

"Dan Gerber tenderly reels his readers through the 'beautiful movie' he calls the passing of time on Earth, in a language completely unadorned and Zen-like in its quietude. The thing itself carries the weight off these poems that recall the deep imagery of Vallejo, Neruda, and Wright." --Rain Taxi

Gerber, Dan: -

Dan Gerber's Trying to Catch the Horses (MSU Press) received
Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award in Poetry, and A Primer on Parallel
Lives
(Copper Canyon) won the Michigan Notable Book Award. His work has appeared in many journals and
anthologies, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, and The Sun. Along with poetry collections, Gerber has
published three novels, a collection of short stories, and two books of
nonfiction. He and his wife Debbie live with their menagerie, domestic and
wild, in the mountains of California's Central Coast.



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