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Cecil S. Giscombe
Professor and Robert Hass Chair in English
Wheeler Hall, room 417
csgiscombe@berkeley.edu
814-571-0429
Books
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Similarly—four complete poetry books and a selection of new poems and sequences— samples the ongoing project of C. S. Giscombe’s long, long song of location and range. In all the work collected here, location is a practice; range is the fact of the s....(read more)
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Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak train in New York City and, four days later, stepped off another train at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Giscombe was returning home to California to addr....(read more)
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Ohio Railroads is a long poem—in essay form—with origins in the author’s memory of a dream of his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Ohio Railroads is an attempt to explore the particular weight of the dream and, in so doing, account for some of the measurem....(read more)
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Prairie Style is about the breakdown of location and voice. It lays out a landscape of habitations (Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for "servantless families," fox dens in an embankment, the two-mile long face of Chicago's Robert Taylor public housing ....(read more)
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