Poetry. Author of numerous books of short stories and award-winning travel and nature essays Merrill Gilfillan is a poet of remarkable vision, insight and accomplishment. His poems speak of the natural world: earth, sky, water, and all the complexities and contradictions of human presence in that world. Jim Harrison said of Gilfillan's most recent book of essays, Rivers & Birds, "If anyone writes better prose in American I am unaware of it." SMALL WEATHERS is Gilfillan's tenth and largest collection of new work. Tom Raworth has this to say about Merrill's poems-"If John Clare had toured the United States with Oscar Wilde, their notebooks, twisted together in a tornado and edited by Audubon and Escoffier, might have read like these poems; evocative, sophisticated and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be." Cover art by Win Knowlton

Author City: DENVER, CO USA

Merrill Gilfillan was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, in 1945 and studied literature at the Universities of Michigan and Iowa. His first book of poems appeared in 1970. He currently lives in Colorado.