Icon and Evidence: Poems

by Margaret Gibson and Margaret Gibson

Book Overview

With Icon and Evidence, Margaret Gibson gives us poems grounded in reverence and inquiry and sensuous delight. She extends and enriches the lyric poem, finding it capacious and durable enough to embrace short and longer meditations, epistles, persona poems, and narratives. Whether their concerns are intimate, spiritual, or social, these are poems of atonement essentially faithful to experience and its revelations, more so than to any specific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807127108
• ISBN13: 9780807127100
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Gibson's latest May Be Her Best

Margaret Gibson, a poet who has given us many books exploring the human experience, brings us in Icon and Evidence a passionately spiritual oratorio. The poems are among the most musical I have read in a good while, and their literary antecedents and allusions are beautifully woven into the whole.The voice of Gerard Manley Hopkins echoes from many of these pieces, giving them an urgency too often lacking in much of our lackadaisical contemporary poetry. This is a book of poetry one can't put down, as if it weaves a spell, a spell approaching chant and liturgy.