The Essential Robert Gibbs
Author | : Robert Gibbs |
Publisher | : The Porcupine's Quill |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781123297959 |
ISBN-13 | : 1123297959 |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Essential Robert Gibbs written by Robert Gibbs and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal introduction to Gibbs’ poetic world, The Essential Robert Gibbs collects some of the finest, most thought-provoking works from throughout his career. Sometimes compared to Gerard Manley Hopkins and Margaret Avison, he has been called a ‘gourmet of the minimal’ who ‘devotes himself to asserting the value of the ordinary’ (M. Travis Lane) and his work demonstrates both a sophisticated grasp of the human mind and a warm familiarity of voice. Gibbs’ poems mix sensuous dreamscapes and grounded realities. In his poems landscapes are evoked in all their ripeness, a father’s quiet nobility is celebrated, writer’s block becomes a force of nature, and a mind can become a home.