Creatures of a Day: Poems

In Creatures of a Day, Reginald Gibbons presents intense encounters with everyday people amidst the historical and...
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Author: Reginald Gibbons
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Creatures of a Day: Poems by Gibbons, Reginald

Creatures of a Day: Poems

$38.38

Creatures of a Day: Poems

$38.38
Author: Reginald Gibbons
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Creatures of a Day, Reginald Gibbons presents intense encounters with everyday people amidst the historical and social contexts of everyday life. His poems are meditations on memory, obligation, love, death, celebration, and sorrow. Some of them show how the making of poetry itself seems inextricably enmeshed with personal encounter and with history. This new collection includes five odes woven from interactions with others, thirteen shorter poems, and "Fern-Texts," a kind of biographical and autobiographical essay in syllabic verse on the parallel decades of the English 1790s and the American 1960s. Using quotations from the notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Fern-Texts" interweaves the dilemmas of love, ethics, and political engagement in Coleridge's life when he was in his twenties and in the poet's own life when, at the same age, he lived in California. Ranging from poems of witness to paradoxical speculations, from the personal intimacy of love and death to the broad scope of historical turmoil, Creatures of a Day is an unusual, powerful collection.

Author: Reginald Gibbons
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780807133187


Award: National Book Awards - Finalist

About the Author
Reginald Gibbons is the author of seven previous volumes of poetry, translations of Spanish and Mexican poetry and ancient Greek tragedy, a short story collection, and a novel, and he served as editor of TriQuarterly from 1981 to 1997. He has won the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and other honors. A native of Texas, he now lives in Evanston, Illinois, where he is a professor of English and classics at Northwestern University.

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