Forrest Gander
Biography
Born in the Mojave Desert, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and spent significant periods in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas before moving to Rhode Island.
He holds degrees in literature and in geology, a subject that recurs in his writing and for which his work has been connected to ecological poetics.
Collaboration has been an important engagement for Gander who, over the years, has worked with artists such as Ann Hamilton, Sally Mann, Eiko & Koma, Lucas Foglia, Ashwini Bhat, Richard Hirsch & Michael Rogers.
He also translates extensively and has edited several anthologies of contemporary poetry from Latin America, Spain, and Japan.
He writes across the genres.
A recent project with the Chilean poet Raul Zurita is Pinholes in the Night Essential Poems from Latin America.
Other titles by Gander include The Trace, a novel set on the border with Mexico; Fungus Skull Eye Wing Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino, translations; and Redstart an Ecological Poetics, essays and poems written with John Kinsella.
Gander's 2011 book of poems, Core Samples from the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Education
- College of William & Mary
- Place of birth
- Mojave Desert
- Birth date
- 21 January 1956
- Nationality
- American
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship.
Books
Water's Edge
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Knot
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Twice Alive
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In the searing ecological and love poems of his new collection, twice alive, pulitzer prize winner forrest gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world.
İz
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Sairin Vedasi
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Be With
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Winner of the 2019 pulitzer prize in poetrylonglisted for the 2018 national book awardpublishers weekly best poetry book of 2018drawing from his experience as a translator, forrest gander includes in the first, powe.
Panic Cure
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The Trace
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Como amigo
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Les es uno de esos escasos seres extraordinarios en el sentido más amplio del término.
Eiko and Koma
Forrest Gander
For over thirty years, eiko koma, the japanese-born choreographers and dancers,have created an influential theatre of movement out of stillness, shape, light, and sound.
Deeds of Utmost Kindness
Forrest Gander
A haunting and peculiar travelogue, deeds of the utmost kindness employs forms as diverse as haiku and prose poetry in settings that range from japan to the rural ozarks to contemporary moscow.
Redstart
Forrest Gander
The damage humans have perpetrated on our environment has certainly affected a poet’s means and material.
Deeds of Utmost Kindness
Forrest Gander
A haunting and peculiar travelogue, deeds of the utmost kindness employs forms as diverse as haiku and prose poetry in settings that range from japan to the rural ozarks to contemporary moscow.
Core samples from the world
Forrest Gander
Forrest gander’s core samples from the world is a magnificent compendium of poetry, photography, and essay (a form of japanese haibun).
As a friend
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"heroism is a secondary virtue," albert camus noted, "but friendship is primary.
Eye against eye
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Among the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation (mark rudman).
A faithful existence
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Faithful existence
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The Blue Rock Collection (Salt Modern Poets)
Forrest Gander
Uses geology, as a means for exploring what it is we stand on and for - emotionally, psychologically, and politically.
Torn awake
Forrest Gander
In his new collection torn awake, gander continues to blend passion with intelligence, unveiling the forces of physical nature and personhood, the self as a construction of reciprocally reflective relations.
Science & steepleflower
Forrest Gander
His poetry has been called "desperately beautiful" by thom gunn in agni review, and "original and fascinating" by john ashbery.
Science & steepleflower
Forrest Gander
His poetry has been called "desperately beautiful" by thom gunn in agni review, and "original and fascinating" by john ashbery.
Deeds of utmost kindness
Forrest Gander
A haunting and peculiar travelogue, deeds of the utmost kindness employs forms as diverse as haiku and prose poetry in settings that range from japan to the rural ozarks to contemporary moscow.
Mouth to mouth
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Mouth to Mouth
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Mouth to mouth
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Eggplants and Lotus Root (Burning Deck Poetry Chapbooks)
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Rush to the lake
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With this extraordinary first collection, forrest gander achieves the artful connection between head and heart and loins.
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