POLAR

2004 Beatrice Hawley Award
2005 Minnesota Book Award Finalist

“I have read few more quotable first books … POLAR is friendly, yearning, observant, immediately winning and witty.” — Stephen Burt, Yale Review

“Picks up the baton left by Wallace Stevens in his last proper book, THE ROCK.” — Daniel Nester, H_NGM_N

“Teems with a language so alive and so imaginative that one cannot help but read on with wonder and rapture.” — Alex Lemon, Bloomsbury Review

“Polar can mean opposites, harsh light, or a vast white blankness, and it is an apt title for Gibson’s first poetry collection, which reverberates with absences — weather, time, places, sensations — either going or gone.” — Clarinda Harriss, Library Journal

“Gibson often reminds us that the seemingly illogical leaps the imagination makes can many times push out into deeper emotional territory.” — Peter Hyland, Gulf Coast

“POLAR is a carefully crafted book, comprised of four coherent sections, united not only in their themes of existential, melting intransigence, but also by the strength of Gibson’s undiluted voice.” — L.B. Thompson, Slope

“Sections are, alas, separated by a page of snowflake forms, but if I can get over that, I can see I could quite get into this one.” — Jane Routh, Stride Magazine (UK)