Arbor Encore is a collection of 47 poems by Richard Gartee, which had their first publication in the renowned international poetry journal, Ann Arbor Review. Written and published over the course of five decades, during which the author became a regular Ann Arbor Review contributor.
Beginning with a scene of students tobogganing down the hills of Ann Arbor's Arboretum after-hours, the volume alternates longer narrative poems of memories or imaginative scenarios with short, pithy, poems of sometimes cosmic observations. The topics range from fairy flights, to tea in Goa, India, children playing with dandelions, spousal discord, the nature of men and women, time, fame, and much more. All expressed in a variety of styles, rhythms, and voices.