It Becomes You

"Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic." ("The Corresponder")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 foll [...]
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"Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic." ("The Corresponder")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.