Among ruins / Robert Gibb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibb, Robert, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Ernest Sandeen prize in poetry

The Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Physical Description:

xii, 81 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

Contents:

I

On Douglas Cooper's University Center Mural (1995-1996), Carnegie Mellon University 4

Two Views of the River 6

Swimming at Night 8

100-Inch Mill, Special Plate Finishing Facility 10

Pittsburgh Photographs 12

Light Rail 13

Half-Light

1 Driving Home from the Post Office 14

2 "Group Finds Homestead Police Station Is Haunted" 15

3 A Brief History of Photography 17

4 Time Exposure 19

Driving Back to Homestead Park after an Absence of Almost 30 Years 20

II

The Committee on Uniform Nomenclature 24

The Gorsons in the Spanierman Gallery 25

Insomnia 27

Moby-Dick 28

Among Ruins

1 Smokestack, 160-Inch Mill 29

2 Words Written for the Historical Marker Planned for the 12,000-Ton Press 31

The Book of Generations Tucked among the Pages of the Family Bible 32

The Negro Leagues

1 At the Renaming Ceremony 34

2 Keeping Score 36

3 "The Homestead Grays" 37

Donny 38

W. Eugene Smith: Three Photographs 40

III

"Beauties of the Common Tool" 44

Industrial Pittsburgh: Works on Paper 45

Dreiser First Glimpses Sister Carrie in the Stacks of the Carnegie Library 47

Making Pittsburgh Stogies 49

Ahmad Jamal Playing the Piano at the Kay Boys' Club, ca. 1945 50

The Piano 52

Jobs Report 54

The Dinner Pail 57

Historical Portraits

1 John McClure 59

2 Philander C. Knox 60

Newspaper Days: Dreiser in Pittsburgh, 1893-1894 61

IV

Looking through the Entries in an Old Pocket Notebook 66

Children Going Home from School to New Raw Suburbs (1952): Photograph / Clyde Hare Hare, Clyde 67

Childhood 69

Double Shot 70

View of Toledo 72

Lunar Grammars 74

On Foot 76

The Art of Memory 78

Envoy: University Center Mural (1995-1996), Carnegie Mellon University 80.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Gibb, Robert, 1946- author. Among ruins

ISBN:

9780268102104

9780268102098

0268102090

0268102104

OCLC:

982091319

Publisher Number:

99975889761