Gathering Format: Trade Paperback

Devin King’ s continuing saga, a narrative poem fit to perform. GATHERING begins at a dinner party in Chicago and ends in a utopia populated by storytelling ants. In between is a choral kü nstlerroman, a series of intertwined, poetic monologues that explore how the single narrator of existential and auto-fiction might be broadened to two, three, or even four narrators. Populated by characters introduced in Devin King’ s earlier volumes, There Three and The Grand Complication, Gathering continues his argument for a narrative poetry told through “ simultaneous flashes in order / spatial agreement meant to be performed.”

Devin King is the author of three books of poetry. He was the poetry editor for The Green Lantern Press and founding co-curator of the Annual Festival of Poets Theater in Chicago. After several years in Oxford, UK, he now lives in Berkeley, California, where he is at work on a biography of Ronald Johnson.