Tina Modotti, know to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed, was also a dedicated political activist and photographer whose best work has a powerful dignity and integrity. She lived with Edward Weston in postrevolutionary Mexico in the 1920s. During the Spanish Civil war in the 1930s she was a nurse in Madrid and on various fronts. In Spain she knew Antonio Machado and Pablo Neruda, who wrote a poem about her after her death in Mexico in 1942. Margaret Gibson's Memories of the Future is based on Modotti's vivid but enigmatic life. Drawn from daybooks...
Tina Modotti, know to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed, was also a dedicated political activist and ph...
In her newest book, 'The Vigil, ' Gibson adroitly interweaves the voices of four women, mothers and daughters of three generations, who, during the course of a single day, reveal the depths of the legacy of alcoholism in their family.
In her newest book, 'The Vigil, ' Gibson adroitly interweaves the voices of four women, mothers and daughters of three generations, who, during the co...
In these poems, Gibson evokes the talismanic energy of things with a palette of sensual colours and textures. Her work seeks to be both political and spiritual.
In these poems, Gibson evokes the talismanic energy of things with a palette of sensual colours and textures. Her work seeks to be both political and ...
In these poems, Gibson evokes the talismanic energy of things with a palette of sensual colours and textures. Her work seeks to be both political and spiritual.
In these poems, Gibson evokes the talismanic energy of things with a palette of sensual colours and textures. Her work seeks to be both political and ...
With Icon and Evidence, Margaret Gibson gives us poems grounded in reverence and inquiry and sensuous delight. She extends and enriches the lyric poem, finding it capacious and durable enough to embrace short and longer meditations, epistles, persona poems, and narratives. Whether their concerns are intimate, spiritual, or social, these are poems of atonement essentially faithful to experience and its revelations, more so than to any specific creed or doctrine. The task to be faithful is both aesthetic and spiritual; to use words faithfully is how Gibson clarifies her encounters with the...
With Icon and Evidence, Margaret Gibson gives us poems grounded in reverence and inquiry and sensuous delight. She extends and enriches the lyric poem...
The inspiration for most of the poems in Autumn Grasses was a daily engagement calendar that features the art of Japan - screens, hanging scrolls, painted silks and wood-block prints - and the spirit of Zen.
The inspiration for most of the poems in Autumn Grasses was a daily engagement calendar that features the art of Japan - screens, hanging scrolls, pai...
One Body is Margaret Gibson's most intimate collection of poems to date. Written as if to honor the injunction "Work to simplify the heart," the poems are direct, empathetic, and tender in their study of life and death. The thirteen poems of the opening sequence, as well as other poems throughout, look steadily at life and death until they are transparently "one body." "Closer to death," she writes, "I want great faith and great doubt." Whether the focus is personal or social, Gibson has written the poems in this stunning collection "because I want to see / how the body goes still / how the...
One Body is Margaret Gibson's most intimate collection of poems to date. Written as if to honor the injunction "Work to simplify the heart," the poems...
