Synopsis
A poet descended from the New York School, Dobby Gibson’s award-winning debut is witty and expansive, driven by precise, interconnected abstractions. Gibson writes about desire in American life, observing, “Amid the middleness, / there’s the feeling / that anything can be seen / and nothing reached,” seeking his truths in misunderstandings and the relentless Midwestern winter.
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About the Author
Dobby Gibson holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Indiana University. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Fence, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a $25,000 McKnight Foundation poetry fellowship, and two Pushcart nominations.
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From No Wake
The snowflakes taxi. The full moon coolly
punctuates its own fantastic, howls the ohs
of its own vowels. The firemen stop for directions.
The children light cigarettes and wish
they had invented their own feelings.
The explorers who discovered only oceans
we cannot name. In the distant universe
there are things older than the light
that illuminates the firmament, a place where every
thought is a kind of unmarked car,
where women wait inside the revolving door
with a spritz of perfume and a secret
for some newer side of ourselves
we will recognize only in what little it will admit.
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