Traveling Companion

"A whole lost America emerges in this book, as it does in 'This Time'. It is in writing like thislike Kerouacs or Olsons, or Williams''Paterson'that we will go to re-possess ourselves of what we've allowed to be taken so shamelessly from us. When the country, the world, will ultimately become one vast, desolate Dubai, Gibbons will have preserved its essence in his own telling of how he walked its streets and read its face in those of the people encountered, teaching us from movements through the day and night (in dreams or actual texts) what we've missed or forgotten or never knew in the first place. This is what writing is all about. There is no other need or use for it other than for this purpose, no matter how much trash floods the market under the name of literature or how many prizes are awarded to writers hoping to become celebrities. This is the real thing, the writing of the End Times, as Slavoj Zizek describes it in 'Living in the End Times.'"Peter Anastas, Author of 'Decline of Fishes'
"A whole lost America emerges in this book, as it does in 'This Time'. It is in writing like thislike Kerouacs or Olsons, or Williams"Paterson'that we will go to re-possess ourselves of what we've allowed to be taken so shamelessly from us. When the country, the world, will ultimately become one vast, desolate Dubai, Gibbons will have preserved its essence in his own telling of how he walked its streets and read its face in those of the people encountered, teaching us from movements through the day and night (in dreams or actual texts) what we've missed or forgotten or never knew in the first place. This is what writing is all about. There is no other need or use for it other than for this purpose, no matter how much trash floods the market under the name of literature or how many prizes are awarded to writers hoping to become celebrities. This is the real thing, the writing of the End Times, as Slavoj Zizek describes it in 'Living in the End Times.'"Peter Anastas, Author of 'Decline of Fishes'

Robert Gibbons's work transcends genres. Living body writing; what difference, if Truth comes out and gives readers pleasure. Guy Davenport and Marjorie Perloff compared his work to Rimbaud's. Sam Hamill wrote, "Anyone familiar with Thelonius Monk's music cannot help but feel the quirky syncopations of Gibbons' mind fitting perfectly with those of the pianist." At sixty-five years old, he's still walking around the waterfront taking in the world, or at the desk in the back room writing, often peering underneath for the Feminine, the Voice of Silence, image of the Hidden, embodiment of Beauty, signature of Peace, source of Love, and so on.