Calling from the Scaffold: Poems

Calling from the Scaffold is a collection of poems about connecting and not connecting--of approaching the brink of connecting. It’s about paying tribute and salvaging and gratitude. The voices vary in their longings: we hear from men and women, the young and no longer young. Nature often is there to help them out. The poet, also a writer of fiction and nonfiction, is interested in story, in his characters’ ability to move down the road, searching for their best selves, best home, putting together the pieces that move them toward that famous happy ending.

Gary Gildner has published eight books of poetry and is a frequent contributor to such publications as the Paris Review, the Georgia Review, and the Nation. Among the many awards Gildner has received for his poetry and short stories are the Robert Frost Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, two National Endowment Fellowships, five Yaddo Fellowships, the MacDowell Colony Fellow, and the William Carlos Williams Prize.