Dan Gerber is the author of three novels, a short story collection, two works of nonfiction, and numerous books of poems, including The End of Michelangelo (Copper Canyon Press, 2022); A Primer on Parallel Lives; Sailing through Cassiopeia, winner of the 2013 Society of Midland Authors Award for poetry; and Particles. He has received the Michigan Author Award and the Mark Twain Award for distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature and has had work included in Best American Poetry. Gerber lives with his wife, Debbie, in the mountains of Central California.

Two Poems

by Dan Gerber

At the Narrative Night in Santa Fe in October 2007, Dan Gerber read his poetry, including the two pieces here—a story from boyhood, and another from near the end of his mother’s life.

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