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World Over Water: Poems (Histories of Arkansas)
Robert Gibb
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Description for World Over Water: Poems (Histories of Arkansas)
Paperback. 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. Series: Histories of Arkansas. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154.
In 1999, Robert Gibb published ""The Origins of Evening"", selected by Eavan Boland for W. W. Norton as that year's ""National Poetry Series"" selection. Nearly five years later, he published ""The Burning World"" with the University of Arkansas Press, and Stanley Plumley described the ""evolving, working lyric narrative [that was] underway."" Indeed, in Gibb's new collection, ""World over Water"", this evolving, lyric narrative finds its conclusion in the third volume of his Pittsburgh trilogy. The new collection continues to explore the lost industrial world - a world of steel mills, fire-strewn rivers, and working-class lives, in which place and family ... Read more
In 1999, Robert Gibb published ""The Origins of Evening"", selected by Eavan Boland for W. W. Norton as that year's ""National Poetry Series"" selection. Nearly five years later, he published ""The Burning World"" with the University of Arkansas Press, and Stanley Plumley described the ""evolving, working lyric narrative [that was] underway."" Indeed, in Gibb's new collection, ""World over Water"", this evolving, lyric narrative finds its conclusion in the third volume of his Pittsburgh trilogy. The new collection continues to explore the lost industrial world - a world of steel mills, fire-strewn rivers, and working-class lives, in which place and family ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Series
Histories of Arkansas
Number of Pages
90
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288363
SKU
V9781557288363
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Ref
99-15
About Robert Gibb
Robert Gibb was born and lives in the steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, where many of his poems are set. He is the author of a number of collections, including Momentary Days, winner of the Camden Poetry Award. Among his other awards are a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
Reviews for World Over Water: Poems (Histories of Arkansas)
The strength of American writing today is in such good work." —Guy Davenport, author of The Geography of the Imagination "In the grave, elegiac, and exquisitely accomplished poems of his new collection, Gibb teaches us anew how, as one of his poems has it, 'seeing [is] a way of inhabiting time.' . . . [Here are] deeply felt, formally ... Read more