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false <![CDATA[Polar]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181757059m/1188991.jpg 1188991 1 "These poems are written by a true poet, someone in love with the world and mad at it too, and they are also written by a very particular poet, Dobby Gibson, who is madly in love with the other mysterious inner world each of us possesses and reveals when no one else is looking. 'It may be true that everything / has already been said, / but it's just as true that not everyone / has had a chance to say it.' How can one not listen to the innards of a young poet who announces as much and then sets out, in his first book, to make it new? One can't not listen. One must."-Mary Ruefle A poetry 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. 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. Dobby Gibson holds an MFA 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 fellow-ship and two Pushcart nominations. 1176989 1 5 2005 Polar total:32|5:12|4:11|3:9|2:0|1:0| 32 131 47 3 5 0 false false Tue Feb 10 17:25:27 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 17:26:54 -0800 2009 mnartists.org two years ago. Excellent!]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 10:51:06 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 10:51:53 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Aug 12 15:25:37 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 15:26:32 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 11:24:41 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 11:24:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 14:47:48 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 14:47:48 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:03:36 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 23:15:55 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 00:03:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 13:40:07 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 13:40:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jul 27 12:44:33 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 12:44:33 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jul 12 19:01:07 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 19:01:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 05 19:34:08 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 19:34:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 29 14:44:08 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 14:44:11 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Mar 05 16:21:26 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 16:21:26 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Feb 28 10:12:27 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 10:12:27 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Feb 14 09:49:53 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 01 11:11:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Feb 05 05:21:15 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 05:21:15 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 27 15:32:58 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 15:32:58 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Dec 30 11:55:15 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 21 05:46:27 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Nov 25 19:29:41 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 19:29:41 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 17 17:47:02 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 17:47:02 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 17 17:36:02 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 17:36:02 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1188991