The Origins of Evening: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393319644)

Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by Eavan Boland. Of the collection, Eavan Boland wrote: "The deft language and lyric intent of these poems serve one purpose: slowly and exactly they expose the dark, silvery images of a lost world. Here is Pittsburgh at twilight, in the old dusk of the steel mills. Here is a drug store, the Monongahela river, the trolleys and the carbarns. And here is memory at its most scalding, intense, and rigorous. This world is never regretted, never mourned for. There is no elegy here because not a single detail in this remarkable landscape has ceased to exist. It is all there, all alive, all available to language. This is a rare and forceful book of poems."

Author: Robert Gibb
ISBN-10: 0393319644
ISBN-13: 9780393319644
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.55w x 0.45d