Poetry. "I love Morgan Gibson's poem for Kenneth Rexroth!"—Robert Bly. "After years of keeping these poems' treasures to himself, Morgan Gibson has unleashed the floodgates of his poetic stream of consciousness in a much-awaited book. Paying homage to Beats, beggars, and bodhisattvas everywhere, this poetry sings of the destitution, the beauty and the holy in the world and in one word. Is is Zen? Is it Nonsense? It's Nonzen—'strong. wise, compassionate, free'"—Leza Lowitz.

Author City: Yokohama JAP

Morgan Gibson, born June 6, 1929, is a poet, scholar, critic, and prose-writer who won a Mutiny Fiction First Award for Nice Work If and an Outstanding Scholarly Book Award from Choice library journal for his Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom. His work has been published in Japan, England, Canada, Switzerland, Thailand, and Italy, as well as the USA, and some has been translated into Japanese, French, and Italian. He has given many readings and lectures in the USA and Japan, where he taught in universities in each country for twenty years. For his next book he is editing his countercultural prose and Madam CIA, a doggerel Brechtian farce performed by the Demilitarized Zone Troup at anti-war demonstrations. He has a BA from Oberlin College and an MA and PhD from the State University of Iowa, where he participated in poetry writing workshops taught by Robert Lowell, Karl Shapiro, and Paul Engle. His archives are in the University of Chicago Regenstein Library.