Trying to Catch the Horses

This is Gerber at his absolute best. These poems come from the well of a pure heart and an imagination that is constantly taking in the world and giving it back to us. I abandon myself again and again to these poems, this perfect sense of the world as it is, not as I wish it to be. And they are generous poems, too. I put down the book and understand what it means to come to an acceptance of the past and the present..that perfect point in time where, if I'm lucky, I can find myself every day. Poems like "My Father's Fields", "Wild Horses" and "Spirit Harness" tell the tale of how the world leaks into the self.