Creatures of a day : poems / Reginald Gibbons.

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 inextric...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Gibbons, Reginald
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ℗♭2008.
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505 0 |a Ode : Citizens -- In cold spring air -- Rich pale pink -- Where moon light angles through -- In an old cabinet -- Ode : At a twenty-four-hour gas station -- The young woman did office work -- On sad suburban afternoons of autumn -- Celebration -- Ode: Sometimes there's neither sun nor shadow -- My Herakleitos -- Enough -- Sleepless in the cold dark -- Ode : Samaritan -- These sideways leaps, remembering -- Confession -- An aching young man -- Ode : I had been reading ancient Greeks -- Fern-texts. 
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