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Author Gibb, Robert, 1946- author.

Title Pittsburghese : poems / by Robert Gibb
Published East Lansing, Michigan : Wheelbarrow Books, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource (84 pages)
Series Wheelbarrow Books series
Wheelbarrow Books poetry series.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- I -- The Pittsburgh Athletic Association -- Deskulling the Slag Pots -- Home Scrap Project: Unemployed Steel Worker, 1987-1988 -- Musicology -- Impulse! -- Last Round: For Rufus Harley -- Homestead, ca. 1929. Oil on Canvas -- Worker, Steel Mill -- The Immanence of 78s -- On the Removal of the Stephen Foster Statue from Schenley Plaza in Pittsburgh -- II -- The Etymologies of Rust -- Pittsburghese -- The Play of Memory in Childhood Spaces -- Phone Booths -- Telling Time -- Winter Nights Enlarge the Number of Their Hours -- Abbott Street -- Metaphysics -- Timelines
Elegy for the Park Theater -- III -- All Hallows -- Joining the Congregation -- St. Joseph, Abscondus -- Voice-Over -- An End of the Marriage: My Stepmother Buys Twin Beds -- The Hall Mirror -- Home Movies -- Monostiches -- Varieties of Religious Experience -- Frances Perkins at the Homestead Post Office -- IV -- Bildungsroman -- The Age of Innocence -- Park Elementary -- Summa Theologiae -- Coal Stove -- Vandals -- Deer Season -- Skinhead -- Skunk Journal -- Century Elegies -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Series Acknowledgments
Summary "Personal and public histories anchor this collection of elegiac poems about the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes blibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 31, 2024)
SUBJECT Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781609177577
1609177576
9781628955200
1628955201