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- Book Title
- Pittsburghese
- Publication Name
- Pittsburghese
- Title
- Pittsburghese
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781611864878
- ISBN
- 9781611864878
- Publisher
- Michigan STATE University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Places, General, American / General
- Release Date
- 29/02/2024
- Release Year
- 2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Wheelbarrow Books
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 100 Pages
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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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Michigan STATE University Press
ISBN-10
1611864879
ISBN-13
9781611864878
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11061231559
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pittsburghese
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Places, General, American / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
100 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3557.I139p58 2023
Reviews
Robert Gibb's Pittsburghese is an impressive homage to the "iron" city of Pittsburgh, its culture, its people, its industrial past of steel production, its subsequent economic decline, and its hard-won resurgence. Meditations, elegies, and ekphrastic pieces abound in which the poet renders in potent lyricism the "mills' brutal music," a muscular counterpoint to William Wordsworth's "the still, sad music of humanity" from "Tintern Abbey." Like Wordsworth, Gibb is a consummate poet of personal memory, specifically of his childhood and youth in nearby Homestead with its "crowded rows of houses [and] Steel mills billowing / Identical plumes of smoke." His language is elegant and precise, rich with inventive images, such as the "auroras of white-hot scoria" of the blast furnaces. Gibb is the bard par excellence of Pittsburgh. -- Orlando Ricardo Menes , author of The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds, Gibb's poems are so natural in their tone that they might seem like someone, anyone, just talking; that is, if anyone but Gibb could have a genius for lyric precision, a painter's eye for detail, an impeccable ear for the music of his native dialect, and an unbearable grief born from the awareness of losing everything that matters to him a little at a time. -- Michael Simms , Plume Poetry, Pittsburghese is the language spoken in the pages of this poet's singular concoction, a mix of keen musicality and uncommon sagacity that wound itself purposely and sinuously through my imagination like the twisty hills and bridges of its hometown. In the tradition of learning the sacred, secret loves of a burnished and bellowed metropolis, this poet's voice masterfully testifies to neighborhoods and lives doused in enough heat to melt but then forged in enough wry and heart-busted love to craft the wiry steel of these poems. -- Tyehimba Jess , author of Olio , winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Copyright Date
2024
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2023-021611
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Wheelbarrow Bks.
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