C. S. Giscombe

Author of Giscome Road

About the Author

C. S. Giscombe is the author of several books of poetry, including Giscome Road, Prairie Style and Here, all three of which are also available from Dalkey Archive Press. He has also published a memoir entitled Into and Out of Dislocation. He is the editor of Mixed Blood, a poetry journal, and show more teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. show less

Works by C. S. Giscombe

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Giscome Road (1998) 32 copies

Prairie Style (2008) 30 copies, 1 review

Here (1994) 22 copies, 1 review

Into and Out of Dislocation (2000) 21 copies, 1 review

Ohio Railroads (2014) 8 copies

Epoch 7 copies

Border Towns (Amerian Literature) (2014) 6 copies

Negro Mountain (Phoenix Poets) (2023) 4 copies

Two Sections from Giscome Road 1 copy

Inland 1 copy

Postcards (1977) 1 copy

EPOCH Volume 38 Number 3 1 copy

Epoch: 1984-85 Series, Volume 34, No. 3 (1985) 1 copy

EPOCH Volume 33 Number 2 1 copy

At Large 1 copy

Train Music: Writing / Pictures (2021) 1 copy

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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 234 copies, 4 reviews

The Best American Poetry 1996 (1996) — Contributor — 184 copies, 1 review

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (2000) — Contributor — 173 copies

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contributor — 141 copies

Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (2011) — Contributor — 89 copies, 1 review

The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 67 copies, 1 review

Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (2016) — Contributor — 65 copies

Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contributor — 47 copies

The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) (2012) — Contributor — 28 copies

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (2015) — Contributor — 21 copies

Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (2003) — Contributor — 18 copies

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Birthdate: 1950-11-30
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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6 reviews

Paulagraph 297 reviews

Here by C. S. Giscombe

Part two of a four part series that began with Practical Geography, followed by Here, Giscome Road and finally Prairie Style. I love Giscombe's poetry, his multi-faceted investigations of places, poetics, culture and race, with healthy doses of music and architecture, and numerous wildlife sightings interjected for amplification.The poems of Here peregrinate between Dayton, Ohio and Birmingham, Alabama, along rivers and railroads, on trains and bicycles while Giscombe investigates the show more palaver, the surfaces, and the edges of large swathes of (and particular locales in )a post-pastoral American landscape. He takes the "long view" while taking a close look at his environs and ponders how value is assigned. His is "the way in & further in" that balances "on the remotest edge/ of description." show less

May 25, 2014

Paulagraph 297 reviews

Prairie Style by C. S. Giscombe

Giscombe's prose poetic line in PS is spare yet sinuously jazzy, flat yet monumental, befitting a mid-American landscape in which the plane surface is the template and the high place but a mirage. See my review of Prairie Style in the Summer 2009 on-line edition of Rain Taxi at http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/giscombe.shtml.

May 25, 2014

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Into and Out of Dislocation by C. S. Giscombe