Robert Gibbons's fifth full-length book, Travels Inside the Archive, is available

from Edge of Maine Editions. It contains work written daily over the period of a year & a day. Both Guy Davenport & Marjorie Perloff have compared his work

favorably with Arthur Rimbaud. Richard Hoffman writes, "Travels Inside the

Archive is magnificent!  An enactment of full consciousness in our time. It takes

so much learning and so much discipline to be so naked and free... Bravo!"


                    


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Beyond Time- New and Selected Work 1977-2007


Continental Philosophy
     LITERATURE
phenomenological psychology
   ART
 

The Book of Assassinations  is a remarkably skillful updating of the Illuminations, full of odd turns and surprises; Streets for Two Dancers is a repository of unusual insights. moving observations and getting it absolutely right. Gibbons’s is a very intriguing oeuvre.


-Marjorie Perloff

author of 21st Century Modernism:  The New Poetics

Poetry & Fiction Editor

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Throughout the volume Gibbons dreams of Bach, Bach’s ability to think and create paradoxes and entanglements and he shows that time is affiliated with making variations upon the body. If, as Gibbons contends “the present is the roof of time,” the past—Bach’s time—cannot be anything else other than a variation on illusions. Einstein allegedly said: “people like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”


-Camelia Elias, review in Cercles of Body of Time

Gibbons makes such a moment of intense aesthetic/emotional bonding with a work of art or passage of nature less an esoteric and rare event, letting it become the theme of his writing, in which he captures and memorializes such key instants, “beyond time,” using the prose poem as a paint brush to set down a glowing record.          


-Jim Feast, in Evergreen Review of Beyond Time

Travels Inside the Archive


Gibbons is utterly committed to spontaneity, to the improvisation that knows not where it is going to end “until last tap at keyboard”. Again the spirit of Kerouac and Ginsberg lives on in such statements, as does the bravado of older prose writers such as Hemingway, tossing off great chunks of copy in little time.


-Bent Sorensen

Aalborg University, Denmark