World Over Water

Poems
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-55728-836-3
Verlag: University of Arkansas Press

Buch, Englisch, 90 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 154 g

Reihe: Histories of Arkansas

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 stand as metaphors for each other. The poems reach back to the late nineteenth century in a mixture of elegy and chronicle, genealogy and history, reclaiming the past and its witnesses. In Gibb's universe history is an invisible, omnipresent, essential force, as elemental as the air we breathe: ""That this is what it means / To live in history, as though / The past were a difficult music / To keep from your head."" ""World Over Water"" is not a remembrance of what was but an act of imagination that wills the past alive in all its savage beauty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibb, Robert

Über Autor(innen)

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.