Publisher's Synopsis
"Gerson's country, a landscape haunted by echoes of the past, by wind and absence, is brought to vivid life by the stark, lean poems of Once Planed Straight. His work captures a time and place that many might overlook or dismiss, whether of small-town diners, rock bluffs, or abandoned barns. With authenticity as well as poignant humanity, Steve Gerson observes moments of quiet, ghostly beauty, "a post oak corral/fencing memories" or "the muffled breeze of a distant hummingbird's wings" on a slight promontory of prairie grass."
-Tom Reynolds, author of Ghost Town Almanac
and Home Field, Woodley Press.
-Edie Cottrell Kreisler, Professor Emeritus, Merritt College
-Beth Gulley, author of I Am Your Fish Drowning
In Air: Love Poems, The Sticky Note Alphabet,
and $!*# Hole Countries: A Find and Replace
Meditation.
-Jim McWard, Ph.D., Professor, English, Johnson
County Community College
