Cleaning a Rainbow: Poems - Tapa blanda

This engaging collection of 39 poems features such themes as images of nature and life in the mountains of Idaho as well as the relationship between father and daughter—particularly the discoveries that come to the father of a young girl as the father remembers his own parents and as he considers aging and the value of reminiscence and personal reflection.

Gary Gildner is the author of twenty books, including poetry, fiction, and memoir. His previous poetry collection, The Bunker in the Parsley Fields, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. His other awards include the William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, and Pushcart prizes and the National Magazine Award for fiction. He has held fellowships from the NEA, Breadloaf, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Fulbright lectureships to Poland and Czechoslovakia. He lives in Idaho’s Clearwater Mountains.