One Moment Please

This collection contains sixty poems and one prose piece. Their content encompasses his past, his moments of recognition, and his love of poetry.

R. Jerome Gibbons was born in Chicago and spent his early adult years studying for the priesthood. Though not destined for this vocation, its influences left him a lifelong scholar. Philosophy, history, religion, and literature are his chief loves. His travels and places of residence have includes South America, Africa, China, Mongolia, and Europe. His poems are wide-ranging and often quixotic, all unified by a distinct voice. They reveal an acute ability to capture the moment and a stunning imagination. He and his wife now reside in Oak Park, Illinois.