Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems

By Gibbons Ruark

Book Overview

Gibbons Ruark is a poetic naturalist, bending close to his subject to report with precision the complexity of beauty we overlook in our haste. A truly imaginative writer as well, however, Ruark gives... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807123617
• ISBN13: 9780807123614
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Elegant Retrievals: Keeping Company with Ruark

So long since I've wept out loud--beautiful gifts, these. Gibbons Ruark reminds us every instant of what we miss, of how powerfully love revives, rescues the perishing. Passing Through Customs arrives in the knick of time. Such love, I thank the giver for his reach, for "the worn thumb" of these pages. Find this book; it will change your life.