Flight

New York-based performance poet, native Floridian, recent MFA graduate and Cave Canem Fellow Robert Anthony Gibbons takes us on a transcontinental and transformative voyage, sweeping and spectacular, across the United States in search of America and self. Seventeen poems log his observations and meditations on the national psyche and his own as Gibbons quits the confines of urban life for spacious and sunny skies, Lincoln’s logs, Georgia O'Keefe’s cow skulls, the Wishram man’s papoose – only to lose nativism, rediscovering Walt Whitman’s passage to India, while establishing his own unique voice and prominent place in literary America.