Research Catalog

Title

Among ruins / Robert Gibb.

Author

Gibb, Robert, 1946-

Publication

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xii, 81 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Project Muse UPCC books
• Ernest Sandeen prize in poetry

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• POETRY / American / General
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
• POETRY / General
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I -- On Douglas Cooper's University Center Mural (1995-1996), Carnegie Mellon University 4 -- Two Views of the River 6 -- Swimming at Night 8 -- 100-Inch Mill, Special Plate Finishing Facility 10 -- Pittsburgh Photographs 12 -- Light Rail 13 -- Half-Light -- 1 Driving Home from the Post Office 14 -- 2 "Group Finds Homestead Police Station Is Haunted" 15 -- 3 A Brief History of Photography 17 -- 4 Time Exposure 19 -- Driving Back to Homestead Park after an Absence of Almost 30 Years 20 -- II -- The Committee on Uniform Nomenclature 24 -- The Gorsons in the Spanierman Gallery 25 -- Insomnia 27 -- Moby-Dick 28 -- Among Ruins -- 1 Smokestack, 160-Inch Mill 29 -- 2 Words Written for the Historical Marker Planned for the 12,000-Ton Press 31 -- The Book of Generations Tucked among the Pages of the Family Bible 32 -- The Negro Leagues -- 1 At the Renaming Ceremony 34 -- 2 Keeping Score 36 -- 3 "The Homestead Grays" 37 -- Donny 38 -- W. Eugene Smith: Three Photographs 40 -- III -- "Beauties of the Common Tool" 44 -- Industrial Pittsburgh: Works on Paper 45 -- Dreiser First Glimpses Sister Carrie in the Stacks of the Carnegie Library 47 -- Making Pittsburgh Stogies 49 -- Ahmad Jamal Playing the Piano at the Kay Boys' Club, ca. 1945 50 -- The Piano 52 -- Jobs Report 54 -- The Dinner Pail 57 -- Historical Portraits -- 1 John McClure 59 -- 2 Philander C. Knox 60 -- Newspaper Days: Dreiser in Pittsburgh, 1893-1894 61 -- IV -- Looking through the Entries in an Old Pocket Notebook 66 -- Children Going Home from School to New Raw Suburbs (1952): Photograph / Clyde Hare Hare, Clyde 67 -- Childhood 69 -- Double Shot 70 -- View of Toledo 72 -- Lunar Grammars 74 -- On Foot 76 -- The Art of Memory 78 -- Envoy: University Center Mural (1995-1996), Carnegie Mellon University 80.

ISBN

• 9780268102098
• 0268102090
• 9780268102104
• 0268102104

LCCN

^^2017025415

OCLC

• 982091319
• SCSB-10931625

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library