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In his latest collection, Dobby Gibson explores the strangeness of the everyday with fresh urgency, inviting us to reawaken and reclaim our fuller selves. Hold Everything moves at the speed of breaking news as it makes a plea for grace in a world running short on mercy. Its epistolary poems put us in correspondence with Edo-period poets and 1980s hair-metal gods, artificial intelligence and hotel soaps. Gibson's poems remain on alert, demonstrating the many ways a deeper attention to the marvels and horrors of the contemporary world can form a kind of civil disobedience. Hold Everything gathers up the harbingers of our turbulent world as it reaches for hope and evinces wonder.
Room Tone -- Boingo Hotspot -- This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Wireless Warning System -- Polaroid -- Stand Tall -- Poem Written onto the Back of a Program during My Daughter's Violin Recital -- Dean's Mask -- Poem for David Lee Roth -- The Little Prince -- Shadow Pulpit -- Night Shift -- Poem for Ed Bok Lee -- Poem with 14 Openings -- First Avenue -- Planet Fitness -- Prattle -- Sludge -- Poem for My Ginkgo Tree -- Small Craft Talk -- This Just In -- Hold Everything -- The Afterlife Is Our Most Persistent Rumor -- My Life -- Kingdom of Smoke -- How Roses Get Their Names -- Poem for Hotel Soaps -- How to Become a Poet -- Self-Portrait in a Bathroom Mirror -- Getting It Right -- After Reading Kobayashi Issa's *The Spring of My Life* on My 49th Birthday -- Corpse Pose -- The Endless Year -- After Mehretu -- Poem for Lilacs -- Poem Never to Be Read Aloud -- Poem for Zinnias -- Starting Again -- Dream of Swimming, the Water's Ready -- Flutter Kick -- Gown -- Say When -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.