Young woman with a cane : poems / Reginald Gibbons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibbons, Reginald, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

84 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Mixing pointed commentaries on current affairs with outrage and grief, Young Woman with a Cane offers politically engaged verse that confronts the moral devastation of the twenty-first century. Reginald Gibbons's new book of poetry attends to natural catastrophes and invents natural impossibilities, while also making use of linguistic play and conceptual unrealities. Sorrow for those suffering appears in diverse scenarios: desperate migrants crossing the Mediterranean or the Texas border to escape hunger and war, or youth endangered on the streets of America whose endangerment grows when caught in the rituals of courtrooms and the legal system. The long prose poem that gives the book its title and other pieces evoke the historical depths, echoes, and precedents of present-day life. Gradually the book provides energetic metaphorical and notional riffs on violence, on wars both past and recent and ongoing, as it satirizes the corrupted politics of our age. Yet it also presents tender, sometimes melancholic treatments of everyday life. With a panoply of poetic forms, marked throughout by a lively pleasure in the language and the lines, Gibbons conjures an extensive range of story and experience, feeling and thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Gibbons, Reginald. Young woman with a cane : poems

ISBN:

9780807183762

0807183768

OCLC:

1450846819