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Pittsburghese
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Series: Wheelbarrow Books
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ISBN10: 1611864879
ISBN13: 9781611864878
Publisher: Wheelbarrow Books
Published: Jan 1 2024
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781611864878
Publisher: Wheelbarrow Books
Published: Jan 1 2024
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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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