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Gibbons, Robert

Poetry

Edge Of Maine Gallery

This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have found other works overly abstract. Gibbons emphasizes the economic applications of the theory at least as much as the pure theory itself; formal arguments about abstract games play a minor role. The applications illustrate the process of model building-of translating an informal description of a multi-person decision situation into a formal game-theoretic problem to be analyzed. Also, the variety of applications shows that similar issues arise in different areas of economics, and that the same game-theoretic tools can be applied in each setting. In order to emphasize the broad potential scope of the theory, conventional applications from industrial organization have been largely replaced by applications from labor, macro, and other applied fields in economics. The book covers four classes of games, and four corresponding notions of equilibrium: static games of complete information and Nash equilibrium, dynamic games of complete information and subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium, static games of incomplete information and Bayesian Nash equilibrium, and dynamic games of incomplete information and perfect Bayesian equilibrium.

Game Theory for Applied Economists

Business & Money

Economics

Princeton University Press

This book is a collection of writing that attempts to transgress boundaries set up to limit poetic expression to formal undertakings. Discarding rhyme, iambic pentameter, and even in most cases the stanza, it¿s less experiment than thrust, need, & method based on turning the erotic charge of life into language. In keeping with these crucial contemporary Times, the work increasingly addresses the world of politics, encompassing as it does an empathy for that seen & unseen Other. The author, coming from a myriad of experiences in the working world: years in the classroom, the factory, the library, including Time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington integrates Time spent into the subjects of the texts, elevating observations to the level of Art. See Goya, see Rauschenberg, hear Bach & Coltrane, visit Paris, Portland, Glasgow, Watts. The reader is invited along, the audience is asked a great deal of, there is no easy reading here, but the price of difficulty is Beauty, as Olson liked to quote Aubrey Beardsley speaking on his deathbed to Yeats. The barriers broken here are shards of Time that one holds in hand, turns over in mind, and ponders for future use in Life.

Beyond Time: New and Selected Work 1977-2007

Trivium Publications

Extraordinary work, extraordinary. Probably the best conceived, most cohesive and resonant prose-poem sequence I have ever read (outside of Rene Char or, maybe St. John Perse. And Rimbaud, of course- if Illuminations is really a sequence.) Supple dream images, wonderful intertwining with Proust and the facts of daily life. -Andrew Wilson, publisher, Gargoyle and Linnaean Street

Streets for Two Dancers

Arts & Photography

Six Gallery Press

The Book of Assassinations: Prose Poems

Traveling Companion includes more than 216 pages of prose poetry on politics, music (Bach and Coltrane), eros, art (Goya and van Gogh), philosophy (Nietzsche and Levinas), and the quotidian (daily bread and news that stays news).

Traveling Companion

Essays & Correspondence

Nine Point Pub

Olson/Still: Crossroad is a book of prose pieces on the similarities and distinctions between art in paint by Clyfford Still, and art in language by Charles Olson. The vertical in both is a matter of digging and penetration, not only into the matter of the work, but that of the self.

Olson/Still: Crossroad

This is the third book in this trilogy, following This Time and Traveling Companion. It includes 216 pages of prose poetry on politics, music (Bach and Coltrane), eros, art (Goya and van Gogh), philosophy (Nietzsche and Levinas), and the quotidian (daily bread and news that stays news).

To Know Others, Various & Free

Short Stories & Anthologies

Close to the Tree is the first full-length collection of breathtaking, distinctive poetry from ROBERT GIBBONS, which surpasses his goal of commemorating the treasure of all who went before him. In this unique work, Gibbons paints so many different shades of color it becomes an art exhibit, according to author Leokadia Durmaj. Art curator and historian Marc Primus notes, The poetry of Robert Gibbons flows from him like a mighty river. It is powerful lyrical, strong and hip.” And teacher/author Miriam Hipsh remarks, Mr. Gibbons’ poetry is breathtaking in its imagery. His words paint a heart-wrenching canvas and haunt the reader with deeply emotional truth-telling.”

Close to the Tree: Poems

Three Rooms Press

"Labors in Vineyards of Desire is a grand, sweeping chronicle of our time, filled with particulars transcendent and mundane, questioned and understood in light of the poet's astonishing erudition and ferocious appetite for life. Gibbons entertains nearly every version of each of our era's events, refracting them through the intensely personal prism of his learning and his longing...I believe it is a masterpiece of autobiography." -Richard Hoffman, author of the memoirs Half the House and Love and Fury "Robert Gibbons' Labors is something like the story of ethics of writing. The term may sound pretentious, a typical academic's line, and maybe unsuited to the directness and honesty of the author's style. But the term is apposite as we read a voice trying to analyze or weigh up the choices, sacrifices, struggles that get you to be a writer." -Ben Bollig, Oxford University, Modern Argentine Poetry: Displacement, Exile, Migration "I think Gibbons has written a very important book, the likes of which we don't often encounter today; indeed, the likes of which is practically unknown in a tragically post-literate time such as ours. Though modernist, even postmodernist in conception, it is also an old fashioned book, a book about a writer's formation, much as Pasternak's Safe Passage was. I can't think of such a book having been written in the US in recent years."-Peter Anastas, A Walker in the City: Elegy for Gloucester "In this remarkable memoir Robert Gibbons weds lucid prose about his past to the poetry of contemporary life. Gibbons recalls with insight, honesty, and humor the physical, spiritual, and intellectual journeys he undertook as he wrote his way across the late twentieth and on into the twenty-first century." -Charles Brock, Curator of American and British Paintings, National Gallery of Art, author of Charles Sheeler: Across Media "Gibbons is the new Henry Miller, with less overt sex but many times more sensual." -Tim Gillis, The Portland Phoenix Robert Gibbons is the author of ten books of poetry, numerous chapbooks, and a unique study of the affinities in approaches to art in language by Charles Olson and that of Clyfford Still in paint: Olson/Still: Crossroad. He was poetry and fiction editor of the interdisciplinary journal Janus Head from 2004-2011. His book Jagged Timeline was translated into Danish by Bent S rensen of Aalborg University, and work is forthcoming in the Journal of Italian Translation via Gianluca Rizzo of Colby College. In 2006 he was awarded a John Anson Kittredge Education Fund grant to travel and read his work at the Poetry and Politics Conference at the University of Stirling, Scotland. There, he met Ben Bollig, now at Oxford, who recorded the meeting online, writing that "he is the most passionate advocate of poetry I have met." National Book Award Finalist, William Heyen calls Gibbons "one of the great writers of our time." In 2013 the poet was invited to give the Creative Keynote Address, which he titled, Kerouac & the Ecstatic Act of Writing, at the 2nd annual European Beat Studies Conference held at Aalborg University. Along with his wife, Kathleen, he was a staff writer for The Quarterly Review of Wines, when in 1994 they were guests of Piper-Heidsieck Champagne at the Cannes Film Festival, where Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or. A resident of Portland, Maine for over a decade, during which time he published seven books, prompted former chairman of PEN New England, Richard Hoffman, to write, "Gibbons is in the process of sacralizing Portland, lodging it in the imagination of readers, as Williams did for Paterson, Cavafy for Alexandria, Joyce for Dublin."

Labors In Vineyards Of Desire: A memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Adelaide Books

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