It Becomes You |
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| Author:
| Gibson, Dobby |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55597-632-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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"Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic." (The Corresponder)
* Shortlisted for theBelieverPoetry Award *
From the backs of the books I love and am terrified by, the great thinkers stare back at me with little encouragement. I am prepared to follow them anywhere! --from "Ago"
Meditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with...
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"Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic." (The Corresponder)
* Shortlisted for theBelieverPoetry Award *
From the backs of the books I love and am terrified by,
the great thinkers stare back at me
with little encouragement.
I am prepared to follow them anywhere!
--from "Ago"
Meditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with a wry wit, the poems in Dobby Gibson'sIt Becomes You explore the divergent conditions by which we're perpetually defined--the daily weather, the fluctuations of the Dow, the growth of a cancer cell, the politics of the day. What surrounds us becomes us, Gibson suggests, in a book that will ultimately become you.