Young Woman with a Cane

Reginald Gibbons is the author of fourteen books of poems, including Creatures of a Day, a finalist for the National Book Award. He has also published volumes of fiction, essays, and translations. A native of Texas, he now lives in Evanston, Illinois, where he is the Frances Hooper Professor Emeritus in the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University.

"Reginald Gibbons has always been a most transcendent writer, heartening us mightily through his acute perceptions and graceful ways of saying. His voice strengthens a reader's own sense of belonging on the earth." - Naomi Shihab Nye "Young Woman with a Cane brings man's manipulated world to the fore. Gibbons's poems call me to visit an empathic mind upon land that is both marveled and misused as the titular poem mulls, 'If only we could ask children now for future forgiveness.'" - CM Burroughs "These poems, again and again, renew the soul in its attentiveness and gratitude." - Brooks Haxton "Make no mistake, Gibbons's grasp of form is masterful, and his intimate nod to a rich classical tradition well-earned and finely presented, but this is also a wildly experimental book that forces poetry to do things and to share insights into who we are nowhere else available in poetry." - Bruce Weigl "Gibbons is also an accomplished translator, and his gift in these original poems that move through time and cultures is to translate into the present the living energy that continues to flow from the past. It is an interplay that has become a hallmark of his mature style." - Stuart Dybek