Author Description

This collection explores that idea in its title by opening the reader to a world as varied as the talents of Monty Python and Sarah Vaughan, Peter Gabriel and Hans Christian Anderson. The book takes the reader from the Great Rift Valley to Queens, Mexico to Vietnam, from the south Texas shoreline to the western Libyan Desert. These poems find good things in surviving loss, pain, and separation as well as in the love, joy, and celebration the world gives us to enjoy. Jon Tribble teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he is the managing editor of Crab Orchard Review and the series editor of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.