The burning world : poems / by Robert Gibb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibb, Robert, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : University of Arkansas Press, 2004.

Summary:

Homestead, Pa.: "The Former Steel Capital of the World." In this elegant and arresting book of poems, Robert Gibb deftly renders a world of molten steel and red-hot ingots, of lives lived according to the factory whistle, and of a grandfather who "plunged / Like an angel, his body broken / And on fire." Passing through fire, this book makes plain.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

I

Pictures at an Exhibition

In the Emergency Room

Brain Coral

A Poem Written for the Aviary at a Time of Its Possible Closing

Ash and Stone

The Jars

Sifting through the Remains

Lost Waters

Salvation Army

The Employments of Time in Homestead

A Memorium for the Syria Mosque Razed to Make Space for Parking

Martha in Darkness

II

Magnetic North

Lewis Hine: Two Photographs

Steel Engravings

Quatrains for a Christmas Bear

For the Inmate Pedro Velazquez, Who Restored a Wooden Tricycle for Our Youngest Son's Christmas

Phipps Conservatory

First Visit to My Mother's Grave, North Side Catholic Cemetery

Cigar: An Ode

Folding the Fox

The Burning World

Rust Belt

Homestead Park

Notes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61075-085-3

OCLC:

607141096