Turning Into Dwelling

**A milestone publication of the late Christopher Gilbert's poetry, with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes**

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*Lord, the anguish of my Black block rises up in me*

*like a grief. My only chance to go beyond being breach--*

*to resist being quelled as a bit of inner city entropy--*

*is to speak up for the public which has birthed me.*

*To build this language house. To make this case. Create.*

*This loving which lives outside time. Lord, this is time.*

** --from "Turning into Dwelling"

Christopher Gilbert's award-winning *Across the Mutual Landscape* has become an underground classic of contemporary American poetry. Now reissued and presented with Gilbert's never-before-published last manuscript written before his death in 2007, *Turning into Dwelling* offers new readers the original music and vision of one of our most inventive poets.