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Paperback, 2nd New edition
Published: 19th October 2021
Hardback, 2nd New edition
Published: 19th October 2021
Rorschach Art Too
By (Author) Stephen Gibson
Red Hen Press
Red Hen Press
19th October 2021
2nd New edition
United States
General
Non Fiction
Winner of Donald Justice Prize 2014 (United States)
Paperback
64
Width 228mm, Height 152mm
Stephen Gibsons 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 tourists 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 poets 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), Masaccios 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.