About the Author

Rodger Gerberding, author of COME NOW (The Backwaters Press, 2014), has published widely in literary magazines, including Poetry and The Atlantic . His visual art work is in numerous private and corporate collections, and he has illustrated more than 70 books. He has also acted on stage professionally and in independent films. He is married to Kathleen Jurgens.

Reviews

"In Come Now, Rodger Gerberding reminds us of just how necessary the modernist's dogged desire to employ everything in the world: philosophies, myths, ideologies, art, snippets of conversation, jokes, the detritus of popular culture, to lyric effect has been for denizens of the so-called information age. These poems reflect a probing intellect and an emotional candor that position Gerberding as a poet who is utterly convinced by the urgent need for poetry in our contemporary world, and one who sets out to remind us of the beauty that is produced when a gifted writer practices what he believes."" - Kwame Dawes