Sparrow: New and Selected Poems

By Reginald Gibbons

This collection from Reginald Gibbons contains poems of love, sorrow, keen attentiveness, and a range of feeling and thought. The poetry contains an ethical dimension behind his dramas of conflict and choice, his meditations on feeling and place, and his experiments with form.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807122335
• ISBN13: 9780807122334
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and earthly poems with the simplest of words...

I loved this collection of poems- Gibbons' writing is quietly lyrical and never obvious or outright. Through the simple language and subjects, he weaves together a song for the reader based on everyday experiences, observations and moments. I've never read any other collections from Gibbons (except for the prose collection Five Pears or Peaches- which is lovely, too), so Sparrow introduced me to some truly beautiful pieces from an earlier time, such as "Maybe It Was So."-that one is a beauty. This is a collection to savour, it makes me wish his other works weren't mostly out of print!