Cecil S. Giscombe
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Professor Giscombe has worked as a taxi driver, as a hospital orderly, as a railroad brakeman, and for years edited a national literary magazine (Epoch, at Cornell University). His writing has appeared in several anthologies—the Best American Poetry series, the Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s, Bluesprint: Black British Columbia Literature and Orature, Lyrical Postmodernisms, American Hybrid, etc.
1998 Carl Sandburg Award Giscombe is the 2010 recipient of the Stephen Henderson Award in Poetry (given by the African American Literature and Culture Society). Prairie Style was awarded a 2008 American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation;
EVELINA : | Giscome Road / | Here / | Into and out of dislocation /