A milestone publication of the late Christopher Gilbert\'s poetry, with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes Lord, the anguish of my Black block rises up in melike a grief.
He died in 2007..
About the Author: Christopher Gilbert is the author of "Across the Mutual Landscape," winner of the 1983 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Now reissued and presented with Gilbert\'s never-before-published last manuscript written before his death in 2007, Turning Into Dwelling offers new readers the original music and vision of one of our most inventive poets. --from "Turning Into Dwelling" Christopher Gilbert\'s award-winning Across the Mutual Landscape has become an underground classic of contemporary American poetry.
Lord, this is time.
This loving which lives outside time.
Create.
To make this case.
To build this language house.
My only chance to go beyond being breach--to resist being quelled as a bit of inner city entropy--is to speak up for the public which has birthed me.
A milestone publication of the late Christopher Gilbert\'s poetry, with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes Lord, the anguish of my Black block rises up in melike a grief
