<DIV></DIV><P><B>“Dobby Gibson’s poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it’s fantastic.” (<I>The Corresponder</I>)</B></P><P>From the backs of the books I love and am terrified by,<BR>the great thinkers stare back at me<BR>with little encouragement.<BR>I am prepared to follow them anywhere!<BR> <BR>—from “Ago”<BR> <BR>Meditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with a wry wit, the poems in Dobby Gibson’s <I>It Becomes You</I> explore the divergent conditions by which we’re perpetually defined—the daily weather, the fluctuations of the Dow, the growth of a cancer cell, the politics of the day. What surrounds us becomes us, Gibson suggests, in a book that will ultimately become you.