Creatures of a Day - Poems (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Louisiana State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	March 2008
Authors:	Reginald Gibbons
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	88
ISBN-13:	978-0-8071-3318-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8071-3318-3
Barcode:	9780807133187

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