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Gary
Gildner
September 28, 2001
September 24, 2004
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Gary
Gildner's 20 published books include: Blue Like the Heavens:
New & Selected Poems, Somewhere Geese are Flying:
New & Selected
Stories, The Second Bridge, Warsaw Sparks
and My Grandfather's Book, and The Bunker in the
Parsley Fields, which received
the 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize.
He has also received a National Magazine Award for Fiction,
Pushcart Prizes in fiction and non-fiction, the Robert Frost
Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke
poetry prizes, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
Gildner has been the writer-in-residence at Reed College,
Davidson College, Seattle University, and Michigan State
University, and has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to Poland
and Czechoslovakia. He has given readings of his work at
the Library of Congress, the Academy of American Poets, YM-YWHA
(New York), Manhattan Theatre Club, and at some 300 colleges
and schools in the U.S. and abroad.
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Gary Gildner was born
in West Branch, Michigan, and received his B.A. and M.A. in English
at Michigan State in 1960 and 1961 respectively. Currently, he
lives with his family in Idaho.
"A beautiful
book! Poet Gary Gildner is on the trail of many things: the
surprises of nature at his place in Idaho,
the spirit of Slovakia following the Velvet Revolution, the
stagnation of bureaucracy, the fresh words of his late-life
daughter. Like one of Conrad's narrators, Gildner senses both
the elusiveness of his subject and their kinship. His search
proves compulsive, compelling, and ultimately illuminating.
The reader will want to follow." -Hunt Hawkins, author
of The Domestic Life and President of the Joseph Conrad Society
To view Special
Collections' holdings of Gary Gildner's work, please click
here.
To hear
Gildner read from his own work, please visit the Vincent
Voice Library:
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Last Updated:
March 12, 2010
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