Poetry. Osing here draws on the Mississippi Delta blues tradition as well as the tradition of his own schooling in Chinese literature and American Poetics to advance his understanding of the aging man of letters. Informal in its appreciation of formulaic memories, the volume comprises an elegaic tone while mounting the vicissitudes and caprice of the still surrounding world.

Author City: HERNANDO, MS USA

Gordon Osing is now retired after teaching at the University of Memphis since 1973. There he founded The River City Writers Series, now in its thirty-fifth year. He is the author of MEANWHILE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2011), SLAUGHTERING THE BUDDHA (Spuyten Duyvil, 2010), THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED: FICTIONS OF FAMILY EROS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006), APO/CALYPSO (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002), From the Boundary Waters (Memphis State University Press, 1981), and Town Down River (St. Lukes Press, 1985). He has also translated widely from the Chinese. His travels to China inform his other verse and journal collection, The Water Radical. "The Center is everywhere attention gathers," he has said of his work in verse, prose, and translation. He now lives lakeside in Delta bluffs woods in Eudora, Mississippi, where he is continuing his career in reading, writing and traveling.