Last Lake : Phoenix Poets - Reginald Gibbons

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Last Lake

By: Reginald Gibbons

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Paperback | 10 October 2016 | Edition Number 1

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96 Pages

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A slow parade of old west enthusiasts,
camp song and hymn, came in along the winding

way where rural declined to suburban, slow
riders and wagoners passing a cow staked

to graze, some penned cattle looking vacantly
upâ"not in vacant lots the ancient icons

of wealth they had been in odes, prayers and epics,
in sacrifices and customs of bride-price

or dowry. (Itâs good people no longer make
blood sacrifices, at gas stations and stores,

for example, and in the crunching gravel
parking lots of small churchesâ"oh but we do.)

âThe evening forgives the alleyway,â Reginald Gibbons writes in his tenth book of poemsâ"but such startling simplicities are overwhelmed in us by the everyday and the epochal. Across the great range of Gibbonsâs emblematic, vividly presented scenes, his language looks hard at and into experience and feeling. Words themselves have ideas, and have eyesâ"inwardly looking down through their own meanings, as the poet considers a lake in the Canadian north, a Chicago neighborhood, a horse caravan in Texas, a church choir, a bookshelf, or an archeological dig on the steppes near the Volga River. The last lake is the place of both awe and elegy.

Industry Reviews

Winner of the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement (2021)-- "Chicago Literary Hall of Fame"
"Gibbons brings a sharp, stereoscopic vision to the landscapes and situations he evokes as he is at once vitally attentive to the present and acutely aware of the weight of history. . . . These are supple, reflective, and striking works of conscience in which scholarship is matched by sensuousness, and gravitas is balanced by irreverence and wit."-- "Booklist"

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