SKIRMISH named to 2009 METRO 100

“Because his poems contain extraordinarily evocative lines like, “You only have to make her one grilled cheese in the suffocating heat of summer while still wearing your wet swim trunks to know what it’s like to be in love.” And because his latest book, SKIRMISH, is the finest volume of poetry to come out of Minnesota [...]

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FROM THE FISHOUSE Anthology

FROM THE FISHOUSE: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great
Camille T. Dungy, Matt O’Donnell, & Jeffrey Thomson (editors), Gerald Stern (Foreword)
Original trade paperback with compact disc/ $25.95 (Can. $28.50)/ ISBN 978-089255-348-8/296 Pages/ Poetry Anthology with CD
Derived from the From the Fishouse Web site, a one-of-a-kind on-line archive [...]

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About

skirmishDobby Gibson is the author of POLAR (Alice James Books), which won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award, and SKIRMISH (Graywolf Press). He lives in Minneapolis where he serves on the board of directors of The Loft Literary Center.