false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225425674m/3995500.jpg 3995500 1 New poetry by Dobby Gibson, author of <I>Polar</I>, which &#8220;teems with a language so alive and so imaginative that one cannot help but read on with wonder and rapture&#8221; (<I>The Bloomsbury Review</I>) We have to escape while we can. I'm trying to remember you; quick, now you try to remember me. With sheer wit and keen observation, Dobby Gibson's <I>Skirmish</I> puts into conflict the private and public self, civil disobedience and civic engagement, fortunes told and fortunes made. These poems imaginatively, sometimes manically, move from perception to perception with the speed of a mind forced moment by moment to make sense of distant war and local unrest, global misjudgment and suspicious next-door neighbors, the splice-cuts of the media and the gliding leaves on the Mississippi River. 4041580 6 1 2009 Skirmish: Poems total:22|5:10|4:5|3:7|2:0|1:0| 22 91 43 6 0 1 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 08:08:35 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 18:07:25 -0700 2009 http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-9/matthew...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 30 11:55:47 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 01 12:05:36 -0800 2009
It's the best new book of poetry I've read so far in 2009 and one of the most exciting books of poetry I have read over the last year.

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