Press
“In Deke Dangle Dive, the poem “Mother” stops a reader in her tracks. In so few lines, the poet tells many stories at once. In the poem, and in life, a mother is teacher, worker, provider, and ultimate keeper of hope. We look at mothers through different eyes than we do anyone else, and different details hone themselves in a growing child’s eyes as they consider their mothers over time….”
—”Broadsides to Books: Deke Dangle Dive”
“The poem [‘High Forest State Marginal’] is one of many in Deke Dangle Dive, Fay-LeBlanc’s second collection, to grapple with the manifold messiness of the world — from the heart-wrenching (his brother’s terminal illness) to the macabre (a dog rolling in the flattened remains of a mouse) to the malodorous (a ripe locker room after a hockey game).”
“The poems are not about hockey per se, but about brotherhood, fatherhood and, less so, contemporary masculinity.”
— “Season brings three new books from Maine poets,” Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram
“Gibson Fay-LeBlanc is proud be known as Portland’s puck-moving poet laureate.”
— “Portland’s newest poet laureate writes about playing hockey,” Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram