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Gibson, Margaret Ferguson was born on February 17, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of John Spears and Mattie Leigh Ferguson.
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Autumn Grasses: Poems
(The inspiration for most of the poems in Autumn Grasses w...)
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, wood-block prints. In the dynamic stillness of this new visual field, Margaret Gibson steps away from the merely personal-"No one's home"-to write poems that dip and swoop with the unguarded ease of birds in flight, verse as fluid and seamless as the movement of day to night, season to season. Trusting the power of unknowing, of imagination, these poems are delicate reminders of English-based forms filled with the spirit of Zen. Autumn Grasses is both elegant and spontaneous, vivid and wise. Gibson's rapt engagement with Japanese art has produced swift insight, detail that dazzles, a voice that can range from the serene to the earthy, always with a commitment of seeing each thing as it is, entering each moment with presence and zest. In fields of lush clover and hay-scent grass the autumn moon takes refuge The cricket's song is gold Zeshins's loneliness taught him this Who is coming? What will come to pass, and pass? Neither bruise nor sweetness nor cool air not knowing knows the way And the moon? Who among us does not wander, and flare and bow to the ground? Who does not savor, and stand open if only in secret taking heart in the ripening of the moon? -"Autumn Grasses"
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Long Walks in the Afternoon: Poems
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(Long Walks in the Afternoon) Author: Margaret Gibson published on (November, 1982)
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Icon and Evidence: Poems
(With ICON AND EVIDENCE, Margaret Gibson gives us poems gr...)
With ICON AND EVIDENCE, Margaret Gibson gives us poems grounded in reverence and inquiry and sensuous delight. She extends and enriches the lyric poems, 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 Absolute within the relative and mutable things of this world. The opening poem situates the poet beneath an endless sky of stars and dark emptiness: "But dear God, all I want is to be here, / my tiny anguish and my joy / a moment's notice, an equivalent cry." The book divides into four sections: CANTICLE, COMPLAINT, CONFESSION, and COMPLINE. Like the Psalms, the poems praise with one voice, then turn to note human failure, error, and injustice. They contemplate the ways of desire, then enter "the mission of solitude," turning from social practice to meditative practices, "summoned / by pain and darkness by an intrepid joy." Traditionally, the one who makes an icon does so in an attitude of contemplation, the finished icon uniting image and spirit in a presence that challenges and confronts the one who stands before it. EVIDENCE has the force of both data and document, but it also includes "the evidence of things not seen," In this rich and powerful collection, Gibson uses both icon and evidence to probe the human heart--its entanglements and its freedom.
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Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems
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- Out in the Open: Poems (Book by Gibson, Margaret)
Margaret Ferguson Gibson
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Hollins College, 1966; Master of Arts, University of Virginia, 1967.
Career
Instructor, Madison College, Virginia, 1967-1968; instructor, Virginia Commonwealth U., 1968-1970; assistant professor, George Mason U., Virginia, 1970-1975; visiting professor, U. Connecticut, 1976-1977; lecturer, U. Connecticut, 1977-1984; writer in residence, Phillips Academy/Andover, Massachusetts, 1984-1987; visiting professor, Master of Fine Arts program, Virginia Commonwealth U., 1988-1989; visiting professor, Master of Fine Arts program, U. Massachusetts, 1991-1992; assistant professor, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1989-1991; visiting professor, U. Connecticut, since 1992.
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Autumn Grasses: Poems
(The inspiration for most of the poems in Autumn Grasses w...)
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Icon and Evidence: Poems
(With ICON AND EVIDENCE, Margaret Gibson gives us poems gr...)
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Out in the Open: Poems
(Book by Gibson, Margaret)
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Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems
(Book by Gibson, Margaret)
- Long Walks in the Afternoon: Poems
- (Long Walks in the Afternoon) Author: Margaret Gibson published on (November, 1982)
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Autumn Grasses: Poems
Membership
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Interests
Connections
Married Ross Shackelford Gibson Junior, August 27, 1966 (divorced 1971). Married David W. McKain, December 27, 1975. Stepchildren: Joshua, Megan.
Education
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1967
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Woodrow Wilson grantee, 1966, National Endowment for Arts grantee, 1985, Individual artist grantee Connecticut Commission on Arts, 1976, 88. Lila Wallace teaching fellow Woodrow Wilson Foundation, since 1994.Woodrow Wilson grantee, 1966, National Endowment for Arts grantee, 1985, Individual artist grantee Connecticut Commission on Arts, 1976, 88. Lila Wallace teaching fellow Woodrow Wilson Foundation, since 1994.