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Among Ruins
By Robert Gibb
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Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and, by extension, Pittsburgh.
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Robert Gibb
Robert Gibb was born in the steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The Origins of Evening, which was a National Poetry Series winner. He has received numerous awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts grants, seven Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants, a Best American Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and The Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, among others. He lives on New Homestead Hill above the Monongahela River.
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Among Ruins - Robert Gibb
Pittsburgh Memories (1984)
Romare Bearden, 1911–1988
A world on which the curtain’s gone up:
Silhouette faces,
Cut-and-paste,
The collage’s quilt of colors—
Or cutaway house,
as the catalogue calls it,
Inside and out on view,
One window see-through
In the back, one up front blacked out.
The colors in the parlor are almost tropical
Where three people sit
As if for a group portrait,
One of the faces pure African mask,
Though actually this is Pittsburgh,
His grandmother’s
Boardinghouse, steelworkers
To the rafters. Look around that room,
The catalogue suggests. What do you see?
(The dust broom on the floor,
The funnel horn
And turntable of an old Victrola.)
"Which forms look soft and blurry?
Which fracture space
So that it jubilates
Like music from the Red Hot Peppers?"
Smoke above the mills and a chuffing train:
Outside it’s factory
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