Dobby Gibson’s first book, Polar (Alice James Books, 2005), won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award. His second collection, Skirmish (Graywolf Press, 2009), was a finalist for the 2010 Minnesota Book Award. A third collection is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2013. He’s been awarded fellowships from the McKnight Foundation […]
Like the last light spring snowfall that seems to arrive from out of nowhere and not land, exactly, anyplace, so too do the syllables of thought dissolve silently into the solitude of the body in thought. Like touching your skin, or the first time I touched ice and learned it was really water and that […]
Now that my poetry is finished and I’m once again grateful for what passes as real in this version of my life, my favorite one, the one in which, in late evening, the lake appears to hold another, more beautiful sky, never again will any time so quietly pass. These perceptions soon lost, if only […]
If you have seen the snow somewhere slowly fall on a bicycle, then you understand all beauty will be lost, and how even that loss can be beautiful. And if you have looked at a winter garden and seen not a winter garden but a meditation on shape, then you know why this season is […]
Sadness, though your beard may be fake, your anonymity is quite real, whispered the dying man to his nurse, raising his arms for his last sponge bath. Early renderings had no vanishing point. Painters dream in oil. Dreams, like canaries, are sent down into our mineshafts to discover how long we might survive; the dreamers, […]
Dobby Gibson, author of Polar (Alice James Books, 2005), discusses how he became interested in poetry.
Dobby Gibson, author of Polar (Alice James Books, 2005), discusses the the obstacles to becoming a poet.
Dobby Gibson, author of Polar (Alice James Books, 2005), discusses the genesis of his poem Polar.