The Garden of Earthly Delights: Book of Ghazals - Gibson, Stephen
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The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals ranges across time and place in visiting personal as well as historical and even imagined experience. As an abecedarian was once used to teach the basics of a thing--say, to recognize an alphabet--Gibson, who has labelled his collection a "scrambled abecedarian," suggests that all meaning arises out of disorder. However, it is from this disorder that the varied subjects of the poems, controlled by a single form comprising the collection, are shaped into a significance, whether that significance is to record a life at its start, or at its…mehr

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The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals ranges across time and place in visiting personal as well as historical and even imagined experience. As an abecedarian was once used to teach the basics of a thing--say, to recognize an alphabet--Gibson, who has labelled his collection a "scrambled abecedarian," suggests that all meaning arises out of disorder. However, it is from this disorder that the varied subjects of the poems, controlled by a single form comprising the collection, are shaped into a significance, whether that significance is to record a life at its start, or at its conclusion. Degas In Degas' The Absinthe Drinker, the woman in the bar > Earlier, she was imagining she would meet someone > There are drunks all around. Everyone drinks absinthe. > (it's a poison, literally; they could care less), as they pour > Degas said he viewed women as if through a bathroom keyhole: she gazes into her crystal ball's green mist--stares, drinks.
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STEPHEN GIBSON, born and raised in New York City, is the author of five previous full-length poetry collections, including Rorschach Art Too (2014 Donald Justice Prize), and a chapbook, Bodies in the Bog (TRP, 1983). He lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, with his wife Clorinda.