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AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR GARY GILDNER RETURNS TO ADRIAN COLLEGE
updated 10/3/06
Gary Gildner, award-winning poet and
author of “The Bunker in Parsley Fields,”
read selections of his work on Monday, Oct. 2, on the
Adrian College campus.
Gildner, who visited Adrian College
in Oct. 2002, read selections that included work from
his most recently published book: “Somewhere Geese
are Flying,” which was published in 2004. The
book is a collection of short stories and was written
several places, including Greece, Idaho, Iowa, the Isle
of Skye, Michigan, Oregon, Paris and Slovakia. Gildner
has said of the book: “For a time I thought to
call the book ‘Foreign Stories.’ The title
I use carried a sound I favor…music both close
and far away…stories trying to connect in…the
only ways available to us: love and loss and that inseparable
hold.”
Gildner has written eight volumes
of poetry, three collections of short stories, a novel
and two memoirs. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer in
Poland and the former Czechoslovakia. Gildner was the
winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize in 1996 for “The
Bunker in Parsley Fields.” He was also the recipient
of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart
Prize, the Robert Frost Fellowship and the William Carlos
Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes.
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