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Cleaning a Rainbow
Here he comes again with a new book of poems—Gildner, the
kid from Flint, the jaunty pitcher/shortstop, the quarterback from Holy
Redeemer, a genuine American article, still in love with the 1950s and being
young, still showing us the fancy moves and surprising turns that inevitably
swerve his poems toward the reader’s affections. He still has the briskness
and inventiveness, but these poems are wiser, more practiced, embracing a
new kind of resolution.
—Paul Zimmer
Gary Gildner has written splendid
poems for forty years and Cleaning a Rainbow is a most welcome
collection, bright and sassy in the language that William Carlos Williams
would have said was made of "the local," that life of children, lovers,
home, of complex mysteries just beyond the edge of our hands and ears and
eyes. He reminds me of Randall Jarrell’s praise for a language that even
cats and dogs can read, the hardest thing in the world to write well.
Gildner is as good as a clear night for seeing things.
—Dave Smith
Gary Gildner is the author of twenty books, including poetry, fiction,
and memoir. His previous poetry collection, The Bunker in the Parsley
Fields, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. His other awards include the William
Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, and Pushcart prizes and the National
Magazine Award for fiction. He has held fellowships from the NEA, Breadloaf,
MacDowell, Yaddo, and Fulbright lectureships to Poland and Czechoslovakia.
He lives in Idaho’s Clearwater Mountains.
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