| The
Empty Loom
Poems by Robert Gibb
Love
poems and elegies
Finalist:
2012 Miller Williams Poetry Prize |
“One
of the best poets now writing in America.”
—Notre Dame Review
“The
strength of American writing today is in such good work.”
—Guy Davenport, author of The Geography
of the Imagination
The poems
in The Empty Loom weave together a figure—lover,
wife, mother, muse—which takes shape before us, fully
present in what Samuel Beckett calls “the time of the
body.” Set firmly within the resonance of the natural
world and glimpsed in paintings, fabrics, snatches of song,
the poems revolve around her, fulfilling their “injunction
to savor / The folds of light which fall / On the perishable
world.” Now joyful, now elegiac in tone, Gibb’s
love and its loss are rendered in the quiet elegance of image
and line characteristic of his poems, their focus shifting
like the sun as it tracks its passage across a room, a life.
Robert
Gibb was born in 1946 in the steel town of Homestead,
Pennsylvania. He is the author of eight books of poetry. His
awards include the National Poetry Series, two Poetry Fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Strousse Award,
and a Pushcart Prize. He lives on New Homestead Hill above
the Monongahela River.
The University
of Arkansas Press Poetry Series is edited by Enid Shomer.
November
5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 • 69 pages
$16.00 paper • 978-1-55728-990-2
e-book available • 978-1-61075-508-5
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