Robert Gibb reads and signs "World Over Water" April 19, 2007

Robert Gibb's new collection of poetry, World over Water, is an evolving, lyric narrative finding its conclusion in the third volume of his Pittsburgh trilogy. This new collection continues to explore the lost industrial world--a world of steel mills, fire-strewn rivers, and working-class lives, in which place and family stand as metaphors for each other.

These poems reach back to the late nineteenth century in a mixture of elegy and chronicle, genealogy and history, reclaiming the past and its witnesses. World over Water is not a remembrance of what was but an act of imagination that wills the past alive in all its savage beauty.

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