'Man is in love and loves what vanishes, ' Yeats wrote. 'What more is there to say?' Gibbons Ruark endorses this view in Rescue the Perishing, his fifth volume of poetry, even as he challenges Yeats through the depth and breadth of his memory and testimony.
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 back to us not merely mirrored documentation but reflections fully colored by his sight and his spirit; like water and sky, both subject and poet are ...
Ruark's new poems achieve an even more resonant and authoritative music, and the recurring modes of elegy and love poem now intermingle with a fresh complexity and strength of feeling. (Poetry)
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(Venture) Ruark, Mr. Gibbons (Faculty Adviser) [James Brennan, J. S. Cross, T. Sean, Stephen Swift, Bill Dempsey, Jonathan R....
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Delaware 1970-71 at the bottom of the Table of Contents page
Date Published: 1970
Description: Very Good. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial/decorated [curved step-like design to the lower right portion of the front cover with a darker mirror-image of that design to the lower right portion of the rear cover, design by Jonathan R. Fox] wrappers [about 6" x 9"], saddle-stapled, 35+ pages, illustrated with photographs. Poet Percial R. Roberts III has written his name and date ["PRRobetsIII/72"] to the Table of Contents page, and added a critical annotation to the margin of page 3. VG+ or ... read more
Description: 8x11 inches, poem printed recto-only in black ink with red title; on cream paper, one of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. Slight crinkling at bottom. (Palaemon Broadside Number Twenty-Four) read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Date Published: 1968
Description: A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (TATE, Allen). THE GREENSBORO READER. Edited by Robert Watson and Gibbons Ruark. Octavo, cloth, pp. xi, 290. Contains the short story, "The Immortal Woman, " by Allen Tate, with fiction by Peter Taylor, Fred Chappell, Bertha Harris and Caroline Gordon, and poetry by Randall Jarrell, X. J. Kennedy, James Appelwhite, Kelly Cherry, Robert Watson et al. read more
Edition: First
Publisher: Yarrow
Date Published: 1986)
Description: First edition. Published as Yarrow Volume 10, Spring/Summer 1989, Number One. With an interview with Ruark by Harry Humes, the editor. Covers lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Bill Evans Press? ]
Date Published: 1980
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