Gustaf Sobin
COLLECTED POEMS

Talisman House, Publishers
ISBN 10: 1-58498-059-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-059-9
Paper, 500+ pp., 6x9
$22.95

The Collected Poems of Gustaf Sobin brings together all of the poet’s work given final approval for book publication: Wind Chrysalid's Rattle (1980), Celebration of the Sound Through (1982), The Earth as Air (1984), Voyaging Portraits (1988), Breath's Burials (1995), By the Bias of Sound (1995), Towards the Blanched Alphabets (1998), In the Name of the Neither (2002), and The Places as Preludes (2005).

Noted critic and essayist Geoffrey O`Brien described the poetry of Gustaf Sobin as “organic matter in motion.” According to a critic in the American Book Review, “Sobin`s work has an inevitability in its momentum and its music that only great poems achieve.” Reviewers, critics, and scholars have argued that Sobin`s poetry is by any measure among the best of its generation.

“The expatriate American poet Gustaf Sobin is a national treasure.”—Rain Taxi

Sobin`s poetry “grants the capacity for silence and for hearing in silent stillness the infinite possibility of generation and renewal.”—American Book Review