Two Estates, Poems by David Rigsbee

The elegant poems of David Rigsbee’s Two Estates evoke landscape and history, art and memory, in densely sculpted lines:

On his birthday, my father the idea
greets my mother the flesh in a dream.
My father the stone draws me up a foreign hill
where a keyhole focuses an arbor
on a basilica in which he will not be found
or remembered. My father the wind
gives my face what is denied both the foot
and the mind, sweeping its words with a hand
broom, among which will be found,
like a nugget, his caesura.
Then I pause, drawing breath,
and walk to the ledge where my father
the evening greets me in the darkening
branches of a pine.

“Classical, complex, and balanced—as well as lucid, observant and precise: Rigsbee's poems continue to prove that beauty matters. Two Estates is a collection that will last as long as there are readers.”—James Bertolino

Sample Poems by David Rigsbee

David Rigsbee is the author of six previous collections, including Cloud Journal (Turning Point Books, 2008) and The Dissolving Island (BkMk Press, 2003). His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker, The Ohio Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many others. He is the recipient of grants and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Virginia Commission on the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and The Academy of American Poets.

ISBN 978-1934999547, 80 pages, $18.00