Graybeard Abbey: Metaphors, Mumblings and Meditations (Signed)

Dillard, Gavin Geoffrey

ISBN 10: 0998288705 / ISBN 13: 9780998288703

Published by Gavin Dillard Poetry Library & Archive, New York

About this Item

Rare signed copy. Signature appears in silver ink on the second half-title page (after the title page and dedication page). Hardcover First Edition/1st printing in Fine/Like New condition with a crisp Near Fine/VG+ dust jacket. Dark blue cloth-covered boards are elegantly contrasted by gold spine lettering. The covers are in great shape, with square sharp corners. The binding is square and tight. Very minor abrasion to the front flyleaf. The interior pages are clean, bright as new, and unmarked. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear, price intact on front flap, not price-clipped."Graybeard Abbey" is the thirteenth book from Gavin Geoffrey Dillard. This poetic journal captures a year on the poet's tea farm in Southern Appalachia, blending free verse, koans, haiku, and traditional waka form. Dillard explores themes of paganism, naturism, and Taoism, offering a unique perspective on forest and farm life."Graybeard Abbey is best read in bed at night, ideally with a rain shower drumming against the roof. Dillard drip drips reverence and irreverence, silliness and profundity onto page, but it's the authenticity that shines through and makes the work such a treat," says Ken Ilgunas. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Feel free to contact us for more information or pictures regarding the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Graybeard Abbey: Metaphors, Mumblings and Meditations (Signed)
• Publisher: Gavin Dillard Poetry Library & Archive, New York
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998288705
• ISBN 13: 9780998288703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 9.25W x 6.25H x 0.8D inches 9.25 inches width by 6.25 inches height by 0.8 inches depth
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

“Graybeard Abbey” is the thirteenth book from Gavin Geoffrey Dillard — poet, playwright, songwriter, librettist, and comedy writer to the stars. Though the book is in poetic form, including free verse, koans, haiku, and traditional waka form, “Graybeard Abbey” also is a journal of a year on the poet’s wee tea farm in Southern Appalachia, capturing the seasons and their foibles, the dramas of the woods and field and their critters, and life with eight obstreperous kitties. Once a gay icon and noted romantic poet, Dillard now turns to paganism, naturism, and Taoism for emotional content, spiritual edification, and poetic flavor. Having been described as a cross between Rumi and Gary Larson, Gavin sets his noetic wits on the tribulations, myths and magic of forest and farm life. From the author of “In the Flesh—Undressing for Success,” and the award-winning opera, “When Adonis Calls,” come more tales of flesh and spirit in rural America. 

Review

“Gavin is a chameleon of talents, a juggler of insights, a wastrel of affections. Dwelling in a hum of vitalities he is a delighter delighting in all around him and replaying it with light and lightness. Wherever he goes he takes with him the light of sweet ferocity.” ~ James Broughton

 

“Love in all its multiple forms is the hero here. And hate is the enemy. Gavin Dillard writes with his heart and his glands. If Eros is a god, Gavin is more than a suppliant. He is a muse who amuses, the laureate of the sensual: a rare and special poet.” ~ Jerome Lawrence (Inherit the Wind, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail)

 

“Gavin Dillard is original, and a wonder ... bold and horny, witty and wise, unutterably tender, and alive as the taste of blood.” ~ James Leo Herlihy (Midnight Cowboy)