The Dalton Gang Welcomes Michael Gilmore

August 26, 2008

Please join us at BookPeople on Wednesday, August 27 at 7pm as we welcome long-time Austin poet Michael Gilmore into the ever atypical and ingenious Dalton Gang at the release party and booksigning for Restless Astronomy.

His first collection of poetry in over two decades, Restless Astronomy includes older, previously published poems as well as new, intensely incisive pieces. Ranging expansive topics, the poems cover love and loss, past relationships, the passing of heroes, parenting, and encounters with the world from Chinese cafés to Russian poet icons.

Michael Gilmore has rounded the globe in his lifetime, and his residency in such varying locales has created a background of diverse experience and an international palate, which both lend to molding his poetry. Restless Astronomy has recently received attention from Texas Poet Laureate Larry D. Thomas who brings to light that “Each page of this daring collection of poems smolders before our eyes, lucent with love and erudition.”

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