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100 1 $aGibbons, Reginald.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78009649
245 10 $aCreatures of a day :$bpoems /$cReginald Gibbons.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $a79 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 79).
505 00 $tOde: Citizens -- $tIn cold spring air -- $tRich pale pink -- $tWhere moon light angles through -- $tIn an old cabinet -- $tOde: At a twenty-four-hour gas station -- $tThe young woman did office work -- $tOn sad suburban afternoons of autumn -- $tCelebration -- $tOde: Sometimes there's neither sun nor shadow -- $tMy Herakleitos -- $tEnough -- $tSleepless in the cold dark -- $tOde: Samaritan -- $tThese sideways leaps, remembering -- $tConfession -- $tAn aching young man -- $tOde: I had been reading ancient Greeks -- $tFern-Texts.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3557.I1392$iC73 2008