Creatures of a Day

by Reginald Gibbons

Book Overview

CREATURES OF A DAY is an unusual and powerful collection presenting intense encounters with everyday people amidst the historical and social dimensions of everyday life. The poems are meditations on memory, obligation, love, death, celebration, and sorrow. And some of them show how the making of poetry itself seems inextricably enmeshed with personal encounter and with history. This new collection includes five odes woven from interactions with others;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133175
• ISBN13: 9780807133170
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"