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Europe
even handed
flawless technique
focused
glamour
horror of history
Idaho
intelligent
Italy
moving
observational
painters
past
quiet
serious
skilled writer
Stephen Gibson
subtle
tourists gaze
Travel poetry
Vienna
Product details
- ISBN 9781586543686
- Dimensions: 228 x 152mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2021
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Stephen Gibson’s poems are the work of a serious, intent, often appalled tourist. The word might look like a putdown, but his subject is the glamour and horror of history, and when it comes to the past, attentive tourism is the best that any of us can hope for. This tourist’s gaze if focused and fascinated, his tone is even and intelligent (as he has it in one poem, “scared in the headlights, but the brain busy nonetheless”), and his technique is all but flawless (unobtrusively so, a true case of art hiding art). Together the gaze, the subjects on which it alights, and the poet’s superlative skill add up to poems of astute, moving observation and often overwhelming authority.
—Dick Davis
Stephen Gibson is the author of seven other poetry collections: Paradise (University of Arkansas finalist selection), Frescoes (Lost Horse Press book prize), Masaccio’s Expulsion (MARGIE/Intuit House book prize), Rorschach Art (Red Hen Press), The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals (Texas Review Press), Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror (2017 Miller Williams Prize Winner, University of Arkansas Press, selected by Billy Collins), and Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale (finalist, Able Muse Book Prize, forthcoming later this year). His finalist short story collection, The Persistence of Memory, is from Stephen F. Austin State University Press.
