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It Becomes You: Poems

“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 me

with 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 Gibson’s It Becomes You explore the divergent conditions by which we’re perpetually defined — the daily weather, the fluctuations of the Dow, the growth of a cancer cell, the politics of the day. What surrounds us becomes us, Gibson suggests, in a book that will ultimately become you.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781555976323
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2013