MR Bluebird

by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299193241
• ISBN13: 9780299193249
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Song for Mr. Bluebird

Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, who won the Lambda Award for her debut collection Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette, follows beautifully with Mr. Bluebird. Whether contemplating the ephemera of pop culture or final things, her poems are born of humor, pain, and an abiding love for language. "Death's the unpatented/gizmo built into all real beauty." She speaks with moving authority to us all.