Turning into Dwelling : Poems

A milestone publication of the late Christopher Gilbert's poetry, with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Terrance HayesLord, the anguish of my Black block rises up in melike a grief. My only chance to go beyond being breach-to resist being quelled as a bit of inner city entropy-is to speak up for the public which has birthed me.To build this language house. To make this case. Create.This loving which lives outside time. Lord, this is time. -from "e;Turning into Dwelling"e; Christopher Gilbert's award-winning Across the Mutual Landscape has become an underground classic of contemporary American poetry. Now reissued and presented with Gilbert's never-before-published last manuscript written before his death in 2007, Turning into Dwelling offers new readers the original music and vision of one of our most inventive poets.