Name: The Burning World
SKU: 24487582
Author: Gibb, Robert
ISBN: 9781557287656

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Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Robert Gibb

Editorial

University of Arkansas Press

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6x10.5x0.7 cm

Peso

0.12 kg.

ISBN

1557287651

ISBN13

9781557287656

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Poesía

The Burning World

Robert Gibb (Autor) · University of Arkansas Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Burning World"

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 are powerful in both their ability to evoke the past and in the poignancy of the losses they catalog, beginning with heartbreaking personal losses and extending into communal ones. Indeed, a book so freighted with loss and sadness might have deteriorated into maudlin nostalgia in lesser hands. But Gibb has elevated The Burning World to the level of tragedy, with all the dignity and severity that that word calls forth.