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Turning Into Dwelling: Poems
Contributor(s): Gilbert, Christopher (Author), Hayes, Terrance (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1555977138     ISBN-13: 9781555977139
Publisher: Graywolf Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - African American
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2014960043
Series: Re/View
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:

A milestone publication of the late Christopher Gilbert's poetry, with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes

Lord, the anguish of my Black block rises up in me
like a grief. My only chance to go beyond being breach--
to resist being quelled as a bit of inner city entropy--
is to speak up for the public which has birthed me.
To build this language house. To make this case. Create.
This loving which lives outside time. Lord, this is time.
--from "Turning into Dwelling"

Christopher Gilbert's award-winning Across the Mutual Landscape has become an underground classic of contemporary American poetry. Now reissued and presented with Gilbert's never-before-published last manuscript written before his death in 2007, Turning into Dwelling offers new readers the original music and vision of one of our most inventive poets.