RORSCHACH ART [Paperback]

Each of these marvelous poems engages as instantly as a photograph: you read two or three words and youre on the scene, recoiling in horror as Trotsky is murdered or twisting uncomfortably as your daughter buys her first bra. Theres no need to develop Stephen Gibsons pictures; they enter your mind so fast that you cant help feeling that whats happening on the page has already happened and that, very likely, you were there when it did. Hes a poet for other poets to learn from, for no one else writing today uses language as economically or to more immediate effect.

David Kirby