The Red Tower New Selected Poems Author:David Rigsbee David Rigsbee's poems focus on the relationships between memory and place, self and other, and history and story. The poems record not only the fact that events and experiences bring us to loss, to the ''Adamic vastnesses,'' but that their transformation into memory can also uncover occasions for redemptive hope. Rigsbee's poems--intensely felt,... more » formally rigorous--are grounded in the South and in generations of family. They move through suicide, disease, survival, and dementia to the spreading loam of racism, spiritual erosion, and permanently deferred dreams; from the hardscrabble seasons and their too-brief flowerings to empathy suspended elegiacally over loss, shaping the climate of felt life.
Rigsbee once slyly described himself as ''a postmodern subjectivist with formalist tendencies.'' The Red Tower brings together poems from Rigsbee's seven previous volumes and thus collects work long out of print, together with significant new poems.« less