<p>The latest collection of small gems (poetry, memoir, fiction) by master story-teller Dan Gilmore, an award-winning fiction writer and poet whose books include the novel A Howl for Mayflower and five other collections of poems and stories.</p>

My Dharma Box: New and Selected Writings

Literature & Fiction

Gilmore, Dan

Literary

KYSO Flash

Season Tickets is a collection of three prize-winning stories and twenty-six narrative poems arranged in three parts to tell the story of a life. "Okies" is the story of a boy's relationship with his illiterate father. In "The Student," a young man putting himself through college by working as a night minister in a wedding chapel reflects on his future when, in the middle of his ceremony, a bride he is attracted to has a seizure and the groom flees. "Seabreeze," set in a convalescent hospital, explores love and commitment when a man is challenged by stroke-induced darkness. Steve Kowit, author of In the Palm of Your Hand, describes the poems in this collection as "crisp, lucid & altogether believable--sometimes hilarious, sometimes chancy and transgressive, often deeply touching." Poems in the first section explore the lesson a boy learns in a group shower, the eroticism of a bowling ball, a mother's religious outrage when the father buys the family's first TV, and a boy's love for a third grade teacher. Poems in the middle section deal with the brittleness of relationships, ineptitude with finding new love, the philosophy of quitting, and fear of ex-wives. The final section celebrates the wisp of understanding that comes with age and praises reference librarians, sushi, a punch in the mouth, gravity, and Friends of the Library sales.

Season Tickets

Pima Press

<p>In Dan Gilmore's deliciously readable poems are poems that read as simply and gracefully as the best anecdotal fiction; we learn that the poet has thrown off the reins of propriety; and that he's "a sparerib theologist / with an Elmer Fudd philosophy." But in fact, for all his hilariously and curmudgeonly humor, for all the charming silliness scattered throughout the collection, these are poems of compassionate humanity and an authentic, self-effacing wisdom...Are poets allowed to write poems this pleasurable to read, this entertaining? In Panning for Gold the reader will not have to do much panning; the gold, solid gold, is all over the place. --Steve Kowit, author of In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop</p>

Panning for Gold: New & Selected Poems

Poetry

Imago Press

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