Robert Gibb (poet)

Robert Gibb (born 5 September 1946) is an American poet. [ [http://www.nortonpoets.com/gibbr.htm :: norton poets online :: Robert Gibb ] ] Gibb won the 1997 National Poetry Series Open Competition for "The Origins of Evening". It, along with his next two books, comprise what Gibb calls "The Homestead Trilogy", a nearly 100-poem cycle probing the fading industrial history and culture of America's "Steel City".

He was born to a family of steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a mill town six miles south of downtown Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. The town was home to Andrew Carnegie's famous Homestead Steel Works and site of the infamous Homestead Strike.

Gibb earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kutztown University in 1971, a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in 1974, and his Master of Arts and Ph.D. at Lehigh University in 1976 and 1986 respectively.

Works

* "World Over Water", poetry (Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2007)
* "The Burning World", poetry (Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2004)
* "The Origins of Evening", poetry (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998)
* "Fugue for a Late Snow", poetry (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993)
* "Momentary Days", poetry (Camden: Walt Whitman Center, 1989)
* "A Geography of Common Names", poetry (Aiken: Devil's Millhopper Press, 1987)
* "Entering Time, Barnwood Press", poetry (Daleville: Barnwood Press, 1986)
* "The Winter House", poetry (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984)
* "The Names of the Earth in Summer", poetry (Menemsha: Stone Country, 1983)
* "The Margins", poetry (Menemsha: White Bear Books, 1979)
* "Whale Songs", poetry (Cranston: Turkey Press, 1976)

References

* "Contemporary Authors Online". The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000128494.
* Peter Oresick (2007). [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07091/773615-148.stm "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette": Review of "World Over Water" and "The Homestead Trilogy"] . Retrieved April 1, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.uark.edu/~uaprinfo/titles/sp04/gibb_burning.html "The Burning World" by Robert Gibb]