Poetry. It should come as no surprise that Reg Gibbons' new book sometimes reads like Latin American or Eastern European Poetry. His years editing TriQuarterly, bringing to American readers a range of poets and writers who reached into the full extent of human consciousness -- historical and political as well as emotional and mythic -- suffuse and shape this ambitious, fully realized, and moving book. Now, in our literary climate divided between reactionary astheticism and fragmented multiculturalism, arrives HOMAGE -- a whole poetry, ethical and artful, political and heart-known. It is a work of sere vision and lamentation, brilliantlyand variously made, but it is irreducible to any one of its threads because it is woven of love and hope -- Linda McCarriston. Gibbons is now a professor of English at Northwestern University. He also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.