Gathering

Overview

Devin King’s continuing saga, a narrative poem fit to perform. GATHERING begins at a dinner party in Chicago and ends in a utopia populated by storytelling ants. In between is a choral künstlerroman, a series of intertwined, poetic monologues that explore how the single narrator of existential and auto-fiction might be broadened to two, three, or even four narrators. Populated by characters introduced in Devin King’s earlier volumes, There Three and The Grand Complication, Gathering continues his argument for a narrative poetry told through “simultaneous flashes in order / spatial agreement meant to be performed.”

Reviews

"mind invisible, / skin takes a collective nibble, and the flower reveals the stem."--Gathering

Author Biography

Devin King is the author of three books of poetry. He was the poetry editor for The Green Lantern Press and founding co-curator of the Annual Festival of Poets Theater in Chicago. After several years in Oxford, UK, he now lives in Berkeley, California, where he is at work on a biography of Ronald Johnson.