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Margaret Gibson (2)

Autor(a) de Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems

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16+ Obras 173 Membros 1 Revisão

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Margaret Gibson is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Vigil, a finalist for the National Book Award; Long Walks in the Afternoon, a Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets; Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems; and Icon and Evidence. She has been awarded two Pushcart mostrar mais Prizes, the James W. Boatwright Prize, the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant for her work, which has also appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. She is a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut and lives in Preston mostrar menos

Obras por Margaret Gibson

The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices (1993) 15 exemplares
Icon and Evidence: Poems (2001) 15 exemplares
Autumn Grasses: Poems (2003) 14 exemplares, 1 crítica
Broken Cup (2014) 10 exemplares
One Body: Poems (2007) 7 exemplares
Out in the Open (1989) 6 exemplares
Signs, Poems (1979) 5 exemplares
The Glass Globe: Poems (2021) 3 exemplares
Lunes : poems 1 exemplar
On the cutting edge (1976) 1 exemplar

Obras Associadas

Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contribuidor — 377 exemplares, 2 críticas
The Best American Poetry 2009 (2009) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares, 1 crítica
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (1995) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares, 1 crítica
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares, 1 crítica
Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares, 1 crítica

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA

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Continuing on my quest to better appreciate poetry, I selected Autumn Grasses a collection of poems by Margaret Gibson that were inspired by Japanese art reproduced in Art in Japan: A Celebration. The poems are written in Japanese style and describe things seen in the art. Here's a sample:

WILD DUCK

It ruffles
its feathers

Silent, unsleeping

the snow
descends

on bare branch
and pond

Its coal-black eyes
are bottomless

How clear
the air

How cold


Isn't that a lovely image? Now that's a poem I can appreciate :-)
… (mais)
 
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RebaRelishesReading | Sep 29, 2012 |

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Obras
16
Também por
7
Membros
173
Popularidade
#123,688
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
1
ISBN
76
Línguas
1

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