the vigil
Finalist, National Book Award in Poetry,1993...read more.
out in the open
is the desert longing, or soul-clarity, a transparency that accepts no consolation...read more.
memories of the future, The Daybooks of Tina Modotti
Winner of Melville Kane Award, 1986-1987...read more.
long walks in the afternoon
Lamont Selection for 1982...read more.
One body
Winner of the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry...read more.
autumn grasses
"Autumn Grasses is inspired by the art of Japan and by the dynamic stillness...." read more.
second nature
takes Ezra Pound's stern counsel - "Learn of the green world what can be thy place." - to heart. With stunning clarity...read more.
published work
broken cup
brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret describes as "traveling the Way of Alzheimer's"...read more.
Poems from NOT HEARING THE WOOD THRUSH have been published
in Yale Review, Southern Review, Shenandoah, Image, Georgia Review,
Gettysburg Review, Blackbird and others.
From the Reader's Report by Bruce Bond
“I look about and find whatever I see/unfinished.” Margaret Gibson writes in these powerful and moving poems, which investigate a late-life genesis. Not Hearing the Wood Thrush grapples with the existential questions that arise after experiencing a great personal loss. A number of poems meditate on loneliness and fear; others speak to “No one”—a name “richer than prayer or vow.” In this transformative new collection, Gibson moves inward, taking surprising, mercurial turns of the imagination, guided by an original and probative intelligence. With a clear eye and an open heart, Gibson writes, “How stark it is to be alive”—and also how glorious, how curious, how intimate.
NOT HEARING THE WOOD THRUSH
icon and evidence
gives us poems grounded in reverence, inquiry and sensuous delight...read more.
to be published September 2018
earth elegy
gathers new poems showing the earth is a place of marvels and, at times, tragic...read more.
Margaret Gibson Poetry
poet ~ author ~ professor
signs
out of print (collector's item)
"Gibson's poems are less events than the meditative siftings of an unusually sensuous mind"...read more.