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Book SynopsisThis new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settingscity apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and juvenile courtas way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode with imagery, looking and listening deeply into our everyday experiencethe extraordinary within the ordinary, the impossible within the possible. Reginald Gibbons is the author of numerous collections of poetry and fiction. His book Creatures of a Day was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Evanston, IL, where he teaches at Northwestern University.
Trade Review"There is never a moment in these pieces which breaks the reader's total immersion in Gibbons’ characters or those characters' equal immersion in the singular moments of their lives. Here is truth so close to beauty and beauty so close to truth as to make no difference which came first." —Kirkus Reviews
Table of ContentsCONTENTS River About Men Mekong Restaurant Five Pears or Peaches Wonder Bless This House The Vanishing Point No Matter What Has Happened This May Money Julius Johnson, 1995 In the City A Man in a Suit You Know Who This Is Preparations for Winter Dying with Words Mission On Belmont Just Imagine Small Business On Assignment Hide and Seek Dead Man’s Things Slow Motion Persephone at Home Courthouse Hollister Road Winter Friday A Dream of Bill Change the Goddamn Thing What Happened A Singular Accomplishment Three Persons on a Crow Arms The Oldest Man in North America The Living All-Out Effort
