Böcker av Robert Gibb

The newest poetry collection of Pennsylvania poet Robert Gibb.

This is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and, by extension, Pittsburgh. National Poetry Series-winner Robert Gibb's haunting historical narratives capture the Steel City.

The poems in The Empty Loom weave together a figure - lover, wife, mother, muse - which takes shape before us, fully present in what Samuel Beckett calls 'the time of the body'. Now joyful, now elegiac in tone, Gibb's love and its loss are rendered in the quiet elegance of image and line characteristic of his poems, their focus shifting like the sun as it tracks its passage across a room, a life.

Explores the lost industrial world - a world of steel mills, fire-strewn rivers, and working-class lives, in which place and family stand as metaphors for each other. This book contains poems that reach back to the late nineteenth century in a mixture of elegy and chronicle, genealogy and history, reclaiming the past and its witnesses.

Lyric poems that tell stories in metered lines and stanzas.