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Wonder-filled and Strange
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: Oct 17 2025
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In these poems, Ms. Gibson explores the ever-changing moods of the sea from a sun-kissed balm to a quiet threat to seeing it as our gateway to a mystery much bigger than we are. She also explores the experiences of loss and grief with humor, sadness, and in Not Shaped Like a Fist, with anger and resignation. Death makes a personal appearance in two poems, advising in Close as a Twin, that It's not personal, since he comes for everyone. In another poem, The Visit, Death gets outmatched by a dying woman and backs off for the time being. Through it all, there is a sense of reverence at life's beauty and mystery as when, at the end of the title poem, Wonder-filled and Strange, Ms. Gibson writes: Perhaps there are many worlds / or maybe only this one - / lavish and unpredictable, / wonder-filled and strange. We invite you to step into Ms. Gibson's poetic world and explore with her why we're here and what it might mean.
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