Pittsburghese
by
Robert Gibb
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Wheelbarrow Books
ISBN-10
1611864879
ISBN-13
9781611864878
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Imprint
Wheelbarrow Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 2024
Print length
100 Pages
Weight
141 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.00 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry / PoemsPoetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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Robert Gibb’s latest collection is a work of poignant remembrance, filled with revelations found in the everyday ‘debris of paradise’. The collection is anchored by personal and public histories, the city’s ‘consensus things’ and ‘standard archaeologies’, as well as by music - jazz, blues, R&B, gospel - ‘sweet rebuttal’ to the world’s ‘cold hymns’.
Pittsburghese, Robert Gibb’s latest book of poems, is a work of poignant remembrance, filled with revelations found in the everyday “debris of paradise.” The collection is anchored by personal and public histories, the city’s “consensus things” and “standard archaeologies,” as well as by music—jazz, blues, R&B and gospel—“sweet rebuttal” to the world’s “cold hymns.” Throughout, motifs function like the thorns on the jaggers—Pittsburghese for brambles—whose points engage the reader “one by one.” Other poems elegize the great buildings and working stiffs of the city’s industrial past, celebrating its artifacts and artworks, the “necessary mystery” of its trees and wild creatures. Particulars of a world in which dialect is the alembic, the means of expression and the shapes it takes on as well—habitation and name.
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