An Orchard in the Street

This new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settingscity apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and juvenile courtas way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode with imagery, looking and listening deeply into our everyday experiencethe extraordinary within the ordinary, the impossible within the possible.

Reginald Gibbons is the author of numerous collections of poetry and fiction. His book Creatures of a Day was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Evanston, IL, where he teaches at Northwestern University.