Reginald Gibbons

About the Author

Reginald Gibbons is the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. His most recent poetry collections are Creatures of a Day, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories.

Includes the names: Gibbons Reginald, Edited by Reginald Gibbons, Edited by Reginald Gibbons

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Works by Reginald Gibbons

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The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Editor — 89 copies, 1 review

Sweetbitter (1994) 31 copies

How Poems Think (2015) 16 copies

New Writing from Mexico: A TriQuarterly Collection of Newly Translated Prose and Poetry (1992) 16 copies, 1 review

Creatures of a Day: Poems (2008) 15 copies, 1 review

Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (2010) 13 copies

Sparrow: New and Selected Poems (Southern Messenger Poets) (1997) 10 copies

Homage to Longshot O'Leary (1998) 7 copies, 1 review

Fiction of the Eighties: A Decade of Stories from Triquarterly (1990) 7 copies

TriQuarterly 60, Spring/Summer 1984 (1984) 6 copies

Five Pears or Peaches (1991) 6 copies

THOMAS MCGRATH: LIFE AND THE POEM (1991) — Editor — 5 copies

Last Lake (Phoenix Poets) (2016) 5 copies

It's Time: Poems (2002) 5 copies

The Writer in Our World: A Triquarterly Symposium (1986) 5 copies

An Orchard in the Street (American Readers Series Book 29) (2017) 4 copies

TriQuarterly 90, Spring-Summer (1994) 4 copies

The Ruined Motel: Poems (1981) 4 copies

Saints (National Poetry Series) (1986) 4 copies

Maybe It Was So (Phoenix Poets Series) (1991) 4 copies

TriQuarterly 54 Spring 1982 (1982) 4 copies

Renditions (2021) 3 copies

TriQuarterly 57 : Spring 1983 : Volume 1 : A Window on Poland (1983) 3 copies

Writers from South Africa: Culture, Politics and Literary Theory and Activity in South Africa Today (1994) 3 copies

William Goyen: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991) 3 copies

TriQuarterly 66 (Spring/Summer 1986) (1986) — Editor — 2 copies

TriQuarterly No. 55, Fall 1982 1 copy

TriQuarterly No. 56, Winter 1983 1 copy

Triquarterly New Writers (1996) 1 copy

Triquarterly 71 Winter 1988 (1988) 1 copy

TriQuarterly 74 Winter 1989 1 copy

TriQuarterly No. 53, Winter 1982 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best American Poetry 1996 (1996) — Contributor — 176 copies, 1 review

The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 103 copies, 1 review

The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contributor — 101 copies, 1 review

Transforming Vision: Writers on Art (1994) — Contributor — 69 copies

Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Contributor — 35 copies, 1 review

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contributor — 18 copies

Poetry Magazine Vol. 205 No. 2, November 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 5 copies, 1 review

Eating the pure light : homage to Thomas McGrath (2009) — Contributor — 2 copies, 1 review

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Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Education: Princeton University (A.B. ∙ Spanish ∙ 1969)
Stanford University
Occupations: Professor of Arts and Humanities
editor
writer
Organizations: Northwestern University
TriQuarterly

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New Writing from Mexico by Reginald Gibbons

A collection of stories of Mexican writers. Not about the old themes like the countryside, the Revolution and Mexican identity, but about their personal worlds: fantasies, histories, sexualities.

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LASC | Oct 11, 2012 |

Creatures of a Day: Poems by Reginald Gibbons

I had a difficult time enjoying the short poems of this collection because of the text layout (I had to add the dots so it would display properly, there are no dots in the text, it's just tabbed out):this is how the.................short poems are writtenand it is very.................distracting to me forsome reason.................but I am sure I am justtoo dull to get.................the deeper meaningbut to me it.................seems pointless andarbitrary.However, the longer poems (the odes) are absolutely amazing. Gibbons' ruminations on seemingly quotidian happenings in his life are quite moving - especially one called 'Ode to Citizens'.… (more)

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ncnsstnt | Apr 10, 2011 |

Homage to Longshot O'Leary : poems by Reginald Gibbons

"Homage" is the key word. This set of poems is very much an homage to the dying Thomas McGrath. As Gibbons compares himself to McGrath, "Homage" is emotional rather than tactical or strategic. I recommend "Homage" only for McGrath readers.

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DromJohn | Mar 25, 2010 |