{"product_id":"out-in-the-open-poems-9780807115190","title":"Out in the Open: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Margaret Gibson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lyric and meditative poems Margaret Gibson gives us in \u003ci\u003eOut in the Open\u003c\/i\u003e are works of contemplation and self-inquiry. \"In the long journey to be other than I am \/ I have struggled and not got far,\" she writes. Sometimes the journey takes the poet literally out in the open--the mountains, the desert, the fields, the wood. At other times, the journey, the search for vision and for truth, begins a moment's notice in more familiar, domestic surroundings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI lift the glass\u003cbr\u003e turn it slowly in the light, \u003cbr\u003e its whole body full of light.\u003cbr\u003e Suddenly I hold everything \u003cbr\u003e I know, myself most of all, \u003cbr\u003e in question. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWaiting for a grasp of permanent unity and clarity, the poet turns the act of waiting into a discipline that enables the obstructions encountered (desire, fear, ambition, death, disharmony) to become teachers. \"Meeting others we meet ourselves,\" one poem says, and whether the other is a love, or someone dying, a former Nazi pilot, or a blind woman in Zagorsk, there is self-meeting and, sometimes, a deep recognition of something beyond, and yet within, self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the core of what I am, \u003cbr\u003e in that sacred space, light\u003cbr\u003e does its work, as it will\u003cbr\u003e without my consent\u003cbr\u003e or blessing--and better so. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEchoes of Taoist, Buddhist, and Christian thinking haunt the mind in these poems, although the vision arrived at in the last poems is syncretic, an existential clarity in which struggle of wills is momentarily stilled. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe wind breathes light\u003cbr\u003e into our bones--turning stars\u003cbr\u003e into power we can touch, impluse\u003cbr\u003e we can follow of tell, teaching love--\u003cbr\u003e for that is what we are.","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47781183783063,"sku":"9780807115190","price":2085.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807115190.webp?v=1778051296","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/out-in-the-open-poems-9780807115190","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}