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A beloved poet captures the beauty that attention to the public and private offers In his latest collection, Dobby Gibson explores the strangeness of the everyday with fresh urgency, inviting us to reawaken and reclaim our fuller selves. Hold Everything moves at the speed of breaking news as it makes a plea for grace in a world running short on mercy. Its epistolary poems put us in correspondence with Edo-period poets and 1980s hair-metal gods...

The poems in Dobby Gibson's new book transform the everyday into the revelatoryLittle Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic, allusive, and collaged, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean...

Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic." (The Corresponder)* Shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award *From the backs of the books I love and am terrified by, the great thinkers stare back at mewith little encouragement.I am prepared to follow them anywhere! -from "Ago"Meditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with a wry wit, the poems in Dobby ...

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 o...

New poetry by Dobby Gibson, author of "Polar, " which "teems with a language so alive and so imaginative that one cannot help but read on with wonder and rapture" ("The Bloomsbury Review") We have to escape while we can. I'm trying to remember you--quick, now you try to remember me. --from "Refuge" With sheer wit and keen observation, Dobby Gibson's "Skirmish" puts into conflict the private and public self, civil disobedience and civic engage...