Christopher Gilbert
Christopher Gilbert (born August 1, 1949, Birmingham, Alabama-July 5, 2007) was an American poet.
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[edit] Life
He is the son of Floyd and Rosie (Walker) Gilbert.[1] He grew up in Lansing, Michigan.
He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972, and PhD. in psychology from Clark University in 1986.[2]
He work appears in African-American Literary Review,[3] Callaloo, Crab Apple Review, Graham House Review, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares,[4] Urbanus, William & Mary Review, New York Quarterly,[5]
His poem Any Good Throat, is on a monument in Jackson Square, Boston[6]
He lived in Providence, Rhode Island.[7]
[edit] Awards
- 1983 Walt Whitman Award
- 1986 The Frost Place poet in residence
[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry
- Nikky Finney, ed. (2007). "Time with Stevie Wonder in It". The ringing ear. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820329253. http://books.google.com/books?id=mZJJuywKJEIC&pg=PA6&dq=Christopher+Gilbert+poet+across&lr=.
- Across the Mutual Landscape. Graywolf Press. 1984. ISBN 9780915308484.
[edit] Anthologies
- Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, ed. (2006). The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195125634. http://books.google.com/books?id=l0gDLbXHAYwC&pg=PP11&lpg=PP11&dq=Christopher+Gilbert+poet&source=bl&ots=LWzd90ogqE&sig=tNcG85NBrz6kYKghg_aPEArzGu8&hl=en&ei=W5M5SrG4AZHTlAeS-_X0DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4.
- Fred Moramarco, Al Zolynas, ed. (1992). Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820323947. http://books.google.com/books?id=pyn6i_R1IPEC&pg=PA383&lpg=PA383&dq=Christopher+Gilbert+poet&source=bl&ots=3cKYY9EZNE&sig=zsIxPgqu0kjwyqclQqH-GjCLxkc&hl=en&ei=W5M5SrG4AZHTlAeS-_X0DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8.
- Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa, ed. (1991). The Jazz poetry anthology. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253206374.
[edit] Reviews
ACROSS THE MUTUAL LANDCAPE is a first collection of poems by a young black psychotherapist from a working-class background in Lansing, Mich., who acknowledges many musical influences but only a few literary ones. The book was chosen by Michael Harper for the 1983 Walt Whitman Award - a choice reflecting Mr. Harper's longstanding commitment to what is richest and most serious in black American poetry. Christopher Gilbert is a careful, craftsmanly writer. His subtle, syncopated rhythms make one think of jazz; but the syncopation is made audible, often, by the underlying presence of meter...[8]
[edit] References
- ^ http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2518/Gilbert-Christopher.html#ixzz0Ijr6aXF7&D
- ^ http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2518/Gilbert-Christopher.html#ixzz0Ijs7aor5&D
- ^ http://aar.slu.edu/bkdescrb.html
- ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=547
- ^ http://www.nyquarterly.org/issues/?id=20
- ^ http://nuweb.neu.edu/psullivan/jacksonone.html
- ^ http://www.pw.org/content/christopher_gilbert_1
- ^ ALAN WILLIAMSON (June 23, 1985). "LOSS, DISCOVERY AND OTHER URGENIES". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/23/books/loss-discovery-and-other-urgenies.html?&pagewanted=all.
