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Pittsburghese, the latest offering from American poet Robert Gibb, is a work of poignant remembrance, filled with the revelations found in the everyday "debris of paradise." It encompasses both a world of elegies for the great buildings and working stiffs of the city's industrial past, and a pantheist sensibility alert to the "necessary mystery" of the trees and the city's wild creatures.

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The newest poetry collection of Pennsylvania poet Robert Gibb.

Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by Eavan Boland. Of the collection, Eavan Boland wrote: "The deft language and lyric intent of these poems serve one purpose: slowly and exactly they expose the dark, silvery images of a lost world. Here is Pittsburgh at twilight, in the old dusk of the steel mills. Here is a drug store, the Monongahela river, the trolleys and the carbarns. And here is memory at its most scalding, ...

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Among Ruins 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.

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.

In 1999 Robert Gibb published The Origins of Evening, selected by Eavan Boland for W. W. Norton as that yearas National Poetry Series selection. Nearly five years later he published The Burning World with the University of Arkansas Press, and Stanley Plumley described the aevolving, working lyric narrative [that was] underway.a Indeed, in Gibbas new collection, World over Water, this evolving, lyric narrative finds its conclusion in the third ...

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, is one of the necessary conditions of witness. These lyrical and devastatingly beautiful poems ar...