{"title":"Gary D. Grossman","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"objects-in-mirror-may-be-closer-than-they-appear","title":"Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear","description":"Poet Gary Grossman has done it again! He's written another fabulous collection of poems that left me wanting more. \"Kale cultivars embrace frost, and their sage-green to rosy bodies makes them as luscious as freshly licked nipples on an arching chest,\" the poet proclaims in \"Covering the Beds.\" Grossman's unique style and POV are impressive, and make this book a must read.\u003cbr\u003e-Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of \u003ci\u003eBrazen, Triggere\u003c\/i\u003ed, and \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Kid Poems\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGary Grossman's poems combine a scientist's cool detachment with a poet's intense yearning to create a voice uniquely his own. He looks back at a traumatic childhood with clarity and compassion, and at the complexities of everyday experience with humor and wisdom. Broadly speaking, the poems focus on the wonder of life and the inevitability of death in the human and the natural worlds. More specifically, they address the poet's awareness of his own aging and mortality, which is always closer than it appears.\u003cbr\u003e-Eric Nelson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eObjects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear\u003c\/i\u003e, poet Gary Grossman uses mirror and microscope to observe the closer-than-you-think past. With equal care, he analyses outer layers of pretense, disguise, and skin. Combining the personal and the scientific, he sees beyond the moment. \"Even in poetry,\" Grossman explains, \"genius begins as atoms no one else has cleaved.\" Filled with birds, gardening, and mating, Objects in Mirror addresses-in prose poems and free verse-the humorous and the heady. The poet moves easily from decaf espresso, Zoom poetry readings, and old Woody Allen jokes to his mother's bipolar disorder, bully foster brothers, and a collapsing spinal cord. As Grossman states, \"My wife says I'm less bruised than most old apples.\" He suggests aging is \"a matter of survival,\" a claim made with rejoicing and resignation. Yet these poems, both tart and sweet, are ripe and ready for the picking. Enjoy.\u003cbr\u003e-Marjorie Maddox, author of \u003ci\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is a lot to admire in Gary Grossman's work in general, and in \u003ci\u003eObjects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear\u003c\/i\u003e in particular. He deals with life and the world with sensitivity and insight. He sees through artifice and lies brilliantly, and he gives us moments of great beauty. But many poets can do this. What distinguishes Grossman's work is that he has the soul of a poet, but the education and training of a scientist. He understands what great nature poets all understand, that the beauty and magic of nature is contained in the science that describes it. He unlocks the magic of nature for us. Through his work, we understand the intricacies of the natural world, but with his poet soul, he shows us the natural world with grace.\u003cbr\u003e-John Brantingham, former Poet Laureate of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBiography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Animal Ecology at University of Georgia, and an author of 150+ scientific articles that have been cited over 9800 times. Gary has poems, short fiction and essays in over 70 literary reviews including: \u003ci\u003eStreetlight, Verse-Virtual, Sheila-Na-Gig, MacQueen's Quinterly, Salvation South, Meat for Tea: the Valley Review Verse-Virtual, Rust and Moth\u003c\/i\u003e, and Delta Poetry Review. His poetry and short fiction have been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net (2) with one nomination pending. For 10 years he wrote the \"Ask Dr. Trout\" column for American Angler Magazine. Gary's poetry books \u003ci\u003eLyrical Years\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay), \u003ci\u003eand What I Meant to Say Was...\u003c\/i\u003e (Impspired Press), are available from Amazon. His 2023 graphic memoir \u003ci\u003eMy Life in Fish-One Scientist's Journey...\u003c\/i\u003e (Impspired) and his gourmet venison cookbook \u003ci\u003eA Bone to Pick\u003c\/i\u003e also may be purchased from Amazon.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gary D Grossman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44062839504938,"sku":"9798991872416","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/objects-in-mirror-may-be-closer-than-they-appear-9840391.jpg?v=1770619512"},{"product_id":"lyrical-years","title":"Lyrical Years","description":"Much like the cherry tomatoes in his ode, Gary Grossman's poems are ripe and tasty, often coming in small containers. Here are moments caught in nets of words, spilling across the page. They leave you with a smile on your face. They leave you with the beauty of language, the \"slow-rolling valley\" and \"fodder for the next star.\" This fun collection commemorates a personal and natural history, the sensibility of a vertebrate ecologist who finds himself in a time of change-not only a pandemic but his retirement-looking forward and looking back, redefining himself. Here is a new tattoo, a buzzard on a roadside pew, cicada love. Enjoy every bit.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Janisse Ray, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eA House of Branches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Lanterns\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eLyrical Years, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e Gary D. Grossman has managed to take flashes of life and encapsulate them in poetic gems that sparkle as each is held up to the light. These are poems that you will come back to for a second and third read to see what else may be reflected in their astute captures of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-James Lewis, editor, \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eVerse-Virtual\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wonderful volume of poems, filled with life of all kinds and well-earned experience. Reading it will touch your mind and your emotions with truth and grace. Gary Grossman has give us much to consider and more to enjoy for days on end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Philip Lee Williams, member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Grossman blurs lines beautifully in \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eLyrical Years.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e His words balance on the edge; teetering, teasing-even tantalizing the reader with verse that dances between science and sensuality. It's boundary breaking and an eclectic jolt arcing head and heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-J. Drew Lanham, PhD, author of \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eSparrow Envy, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Clemson University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Grossman takes readers into his world, infused with heartache and humor, snakes and kudzu, hummingbirds and gifts abundant. In the process we learn about his orphaned life, about life-that you can strike out 1,326 times and also be a hero, also be a graceful, intimate poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Susan Fox Rogers, author of \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eLearning the Birds\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman once described \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e his life's work, not as a book, but as a man. This feeling, of a life contained within a poetic text, is also expressed by Gary Grossman's \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eLyrical Years.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e From youthful loves to later-life tattoos, Grossman's verses lay bare the personal truths of life while always embracing the most lyrical aspects of the craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Jordan A. Rothacker, author of \u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Pit, and No Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gary D Grossman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44062839570474,"sku":"9781639802630","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/lyrical-years-8340266.jpg?v=1770619512"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/gary-d-grossman.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}