ISBN: 1555979068 9781555979065

Category: Poetry / American / General

Page count: 176

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