Full Description
This new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settings—city apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and juvenile court—as way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode with imagery, looking and listening deeply into our everyday experience—the extraordinary within the ordinary, the impossible within the possible.
Reginald Gibbons is the author of numerous collections of poetry and fiction. His book Creatures of a Day was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Evanston, IL, where he teaches at Northwestern University.
Contents
CONTENTS
River
About Men
Mekong Restaurant
Five Pears or Peaches
Wonder
Bless This House
The Vanishing Point
No Matter What Has Happened This May
Money
Julius Johnson, 1995
In the City
A Man in a Suit
You Know Who This Is
Preparations for Winter
Dying with Words
Mission
On Belmont
Just Imagine
Small Business
On Assignment
Hide and Seek
Dead Man's Things
Slow Motion
Persephone at Home
Courthouse
Hollister Road
Winter Friday
A Dream of Bill
Change the Goddamn Thing
What Happened
A Singular Accomplishment
Three Persons on a Crow
Arms
The Oldest Man in North America
The Living
All-Out Effort
