Results for "Gibson, Dobby"

A beloved poet captures the beauty that attention to the public and private offersIn his latest collection, Dobby Gibson explores the strangeness of the everyday with fresh urgency, inviting us to reawaken and reclaim our fuller selves. Hold Everything moves at the speed of breaking news as it makes... Read More about Hold Everything: Poems

The poems in Dobby Gibson’s new book transform the everyday into the revelatoryLittle Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal th... Read More about Little Glass Planet: Poems

"Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic." (The Corresponder) * Shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award * From the backs of the books I love and am terrified by,the great thinkers stare back at mewith little enc... Read More about It Becomes You: Poems

A poet descended from the New York School, Dobby Gibson's award-winning debut is witty and expansive, driven by precise, interconnected abstractions. Gibson writes about desire in American life, observing, "Amid the middleness, / there's the feeling / that anything can be seen / and nothing reached,... Read More about Polar

New poetry by Dobby Gibson, author of Polar, which "teems with a language so alive and so imaginative that one cannot help but read on with wonder and rapture" (The Bloomsbury Review) We have to escape while we can.I'm trying to remember you—quick,now you try to remember me. ... Read More about Skirmish: Poems