In 1987 noted poet and author Gary Gildner went to Poland on a Fulbright scholarship to teach at the University of Warsaw. One January day, a Warsaw sportswriter came knocking on Gildner’s classroom door with a problem and a request. The professional baseball team he had organized the year before could not win; would the professor—who he had heard was a baseball player—come help?Told with gripping lyric simplicity, The Warsaw Sparks is about an American’s experience coaching a baseball team in Poland and about hope and memory and the education of a poet. Prepare to meet an unlikely cast of characters, including Stan Musial, Lech Walesa, Dariusz the Organizer, and such Sparks as Froggy, Pizza Hut, the Cubans, and little Jerzy Bin the catcher: “Call me George, Coach. Like George Herman Babe Ruth.”

The Warsaw Sparks: A Memoir

Sports & Outdoors

Gildner, Gary

Biographies

Bison Books

Digging for Indians

University of Pittsburgh Press

Nails

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

The runner (Pitt poetry series)

Poems look at high school sports, failure, nature, death, family life, reincarnation, the past, religion, and parenthood

Blue like the heavens: New & selected poems (Pitt poetry series)

Poetry

1971 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS SOFTCOVER; 67 pages; poems by Gary Gildner

1975 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS SOFTCOVER

1978 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS SOFTCOVER

The Runner

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd)

<p>Poems look at high school sports, failure, nature, death, family life, reincarnation, the past, religion, and parenthood</p>

Blue Like The Heavens: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

<p>Review\n“Gary Gildner’s poems possess us quietly, with vivid, heartfelt tales of mountain landscape, family, and friends. Deeply human, ever compassionate, he can feel so close to a character as to speak for her, as in an ambitious sequence of a nun who recalls her past. Gildner engages us with an ear tuned to the music of the line and to the speech of his beloved Arizona, authentic and as fresh as mountain air.” —Grace Schulman\n“Calling from the Scaffold, Gary Gildner’s ninth book of poems, finds our poet full of the fearless wit and good cheer that we have come to treasure from him. In thirty new poems—lean, lyrical, narrative-forward, crisp as mountain rivers—he traces the contours of memory, family, love, and loss. Here are rodeos and black-and-white movies, Western owls and the haunted ‘dun-colored hallways’ of schools and family homes—a wide landscape of familiar scenes deepened, made strangely true again, through the poet’s masterful art. Reading a Gary Gildner poem is like ‘a good rain [that] rinses the garden.’” —David Baker, author of Swift: New and Selected Poems\nCalling from the Scaffold is a collection of poems about connecting and not connecting—of approaching the brink of connecting. It’s about paying tribute and salvaging and gratitude. The voices vary in their longings: we hear from men and women, the young and no longer young. Nature often is there to help them out. The poet, also a writer of fiction and nonfiction, is interested in story, in his characters’ ability to move down the road, searching for their best selves, best home, putting together the pieces that move them toward that famous happy ending.</p>

Calling from the Scaffold: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

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The Warsaw Sparks: A Memoir

Digging for Indians

Nails

The runner (Pitt poetry series)

Blue like the heavens: New & selected poems (Pitt poetry series)

Digging for Indians

Nails

The Runner

Blue Like The Heavens: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

Calling from the Scaffold: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)