It Becomes You

"Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic." (The Corresponder)

* Shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award *

From the backs of the books I love and am terrified by,
the great thinkers stare back at me
with little encouragement.
I am prepared to follow them anywhere!
--from "Ago"

Meditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with a wry wit, the poems in Dobby Gibson's It Becomes You explore the divergent conditions by which we're perpetually defined--the daily weather, the fluctuations of the Dow, the growth of a cancer cell, the politics of the day. What surrounds us becomes us, Gibson suggests, in a book that will ultimately become you.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 01/08/2013
ISBN: 9781555976323
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.09w x 0.31d
Award: Minnesota Book Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/26/2012
Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 70