Margaret Gibson
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Gibson is a writer who extends the scope of poetry beyond its accustomed boundaries. Her previous work has ranged from lyric celebrations of the natural world to poems that speak out against political injustice and violence. She can turn from a creative reimagining of the life of the photographer and revolutionary Tina Modotti in Mexico to write sensuous meditations influenced by Buddhist and Christian thought. In her newest book, The Vigil,...
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
With a quiet eloquence, the poems in Long Walks in the Afternoon follow "the deep imagination's long tap into the dark" -- inward toward the still and radiant center of the self. But Margaret Gibson's poetry is not self-serving or isolationist. She writes out of the firm conviction that our personal griefs hold energies that can move us to reach beyond ourselves and join with others in common struggle. Beginning with poems that struggle against illusion,...