Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "Gordon Osing's new book THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED is brilliant,soul-deep, questing, and fun. One thinks of Wordsworth's Preludedone with a great jazz beat, and then one thinks of all the good bookswrung from a writer's experience, from a life. The book has the forceof a train rumbling through a vibrant city. Its obervations are startlingand pleasurable even as they disturb. Read it and see"--Richard Bausch.
Synopsis
The author writes a series of poetic imaginations around the idea of family and identity. The enduring presence of both tends to adhere to fiction, pure and simple, so that the things, the events of our communal time and country are also thrown into this mode of a fictive certainty. The result is a series of lyrical encounters with the loneliness and seeming impossibility of the personal--a universal suffrage that informs everything that happened (history.)
About the Author
Gordon Osing has taught at the University of Memphis since 1973. He founded there The River City Writers Series, now in its twenty-second year. He is the author of APO/CALYPSO, THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED, From the Boundary Waters, and A Town Down-River. He has also translated widely from the Chinese. His travels to China inform his other verse and journal collection, The Water Radical. "The Center is everywhere attention gathers," he has said of his work in verse, prose, and translation.