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by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Author)
From the spewing smokestacks of corporate culture run amok to charting the course of an oncoming dusk, the poems in Mr. Bluebird bring eco-poetry and urban pastoral to exciting new places. Mr. Bluebird, the second collection of poetry from award-winning author Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, explores the intersections between ecology, the imagination, urban nature, lesbian nature, and the nature of the human heart. The book is as much a cry of sorrow in the face of the biological holocaust as a celebration of the wild creatures and places that remind us of what sanity looks and feels like. These wide-ranging poems feature a cast of characters that includes St. Francis of Assisi, St. Augustine, Bart Simpson, Sal Mineo, Paul Bowles, Gertrude Stein, Mr. Eggroll, Mr. Chips, and a tough blue rose named Mr. Bluebird.
Author Biography
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg is the author of Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette, which received a Lambda Literary Award and was a Firecracker Book Award finalist. She has also edited three poetry anthologies, the most recent of which is Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry, winner of the 1998 Firecracker Book Award for Poetry. Pearlberg teaches creative writing at the AIDS Service Center NYC and is the poetry editor at Bark: The Modern Dog Culture Magazine. A native New Yorker, she lives in Brooklyn.
