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The first words in Barry Gifford’s new poetry collection say it all—“Here I am wasting time again / writing poems to keep myself company”—doing what he has ever done, surprising his readers in kaleidoscopic prisms of color, turning every breath into a story, and himself into his most colorful character. She stood and walked across the ...
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“Barry Gifford’s newest poetry collection captures the disarray of a life lived with passion and in many places. Gifford ponders serendipitous...
Barry Gifford. Barry Gifford was born on October 18, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved often and lived mostly in hotels, and he cites the characters he encountered in hotel lobbies as an early inspiration to write. He played baseball in high school and enrolled at the University of Missouri on an athletic scholarship, but soon left ...
Barry Gifford’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in twenty-eight languages. "The Wicked of the Earth" is an excerpt from The Roy Stories , to be published October 2012 by Seven Stories Press/Random House.
Jun 7, 2016 · Read 3 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Barry Gifford's newest poetry collection captures the disarray of a life lived with passion …
Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford writes nonfiction, poetry, and is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual ...
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