{"product_id":"the-burning-world-robert-gibb-9781557287656","title":"The Burning World","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Burning World\u003c\/i\u003e to the level of tragedy, with all the dignity and severity that that word calls forth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Gibb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1557287651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557287656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 4.14w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2004 pg. 67","brand":"Robert Gibb","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096981315839,"sku":"9781557287656","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-burning-world-robert-gibb-9781557287656","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}