His poetry has been called desperately beautiful by Thom Gunn in Agni Review, and original and fascinating by John Ashbery. With poems in the leading journals of the day – American Poetry Review, Grand Street, Conjunctions, The Boston Review, to name just a few – Gander plumbs the erotic depths of human interaction with the land. The poems in Science & Steepleflower test this relationship with what Publisher’s Weekly has called an inbred (and often haunting) spirituality , bringing us to new vistas of linguistic and perceptive grace.