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Among Ruins
Robert Gibb
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Among Ruins
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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âBeauties of the Common Toolâ
Photographs by Walker Evans, Fortune, July 1955
Pliers, tin snips, crescent wrench âŠ
Heâs centered each one in the field
Of his undivided attention,
Where it seems to float suspended
In a world of mists, inviting the hand
To test its heft and balance,
The eye to admire the way heâs lit
The sleek and sculptural metalâ
That graphite shimmer
Thatâs equal parts hardware and art.
After all, there is no part of them
Which does not fit perfectly
With whatever task theyâve been set.
Including the photographsâ
Where lightâs been made to coalesce
In each dense, mist-bound shape,
Forged steel alluring as a magnet,
The planet of its page.
Industrial Pittsburgh: Works on Paper
1. Whistler on the Smithfield Street Bridge
Winter twilight, the last flights of pigeons
Wheeling home above the river,
Wisps of cirrus like scratches in glass.
Again tonight the great buildings have turned
Transparent, their weightless sides
The same gray as the skyâan equilibrium
He knows will soon give way to the darkness
Massing in their shapes, to mill smoke
And gas lamps erasing the terraced stars.
But for now, from the bow of the bridge,
Scumblings of mist on the river,
Pittsburgh looks celestial, hovering in midair,
The way water does in the distance
Above whatever mirror might cast it there.
2. Turner in Homestead
Unmistakableâthe way the landscape,
Which is light on water, becomes the sky
And Homestead the river-hemmed Venice
Heâs painted keelmen floating coal to at night,
The red flecks of their deck lamps
Daubed within the loose notational haze.
Those flat black shadows are steel mills,
Vast as the Dogeâs Palace, stretching back
Along the floodplain. Come daylight
Heâll render their smoke as drifting plumes
Low on the watery horizon, stoked ovens
Howling in a blizzard of pastels âŠ
Itâs there in his sketches, that pairing of light
With coal fires burning on the river at night.
3. Piranesi Discovers Open Hearth #5
Conte crayons and sketchpads, their pages
Packed with the soot-black shadows
Cast by catwalks, chimneys, scaffoldsâ
All in that welter of piled-up perspectives
Weâve come to recognize as his: a space
Both cavernous and congested. Itâs as though
Here in the mills heâs entered one of his own
Imaginary prisons, their fantastic maze
Of chambers no less starved for light.
Hoist chains and rafters. The train tracks
And carriages of the overhead cranes, slabs
Stacked by them to a tenement height.
Yet in here everything is under, a necropolis
Right from his dreams. He canât get over it.
Dreiser First Glimpses Sister Carrie in the Stacks of the Carnegie Library
Pittsburgh, 1893
Barely weeks at his dream job, working
A beat, and heâs holed up in the library,
Snug inside an alcove on a rainy afternoon,
Light mullioned in the lead-glass windows.
All month heâs been burrowing his way
Through Balzac: PĂšre Goriot and Cousin Pons,
The Great Man of the Provinces âŠ
âOpen pictures of self-indulgence and vice,â
Like ones heâs found spread all around himâ
Red-light districts the size of wards,
Gaming houses and pool halls
Where aldermen idle on the public dime.
âWe donât touch on labor conditions,â
Heâd been warned the first day at the paper,
Or âscandals in high life,â or âthe rich
and religious in a derogatory sense.â
But here in Balzacâs teeming chapters
Heâs glimpsed a mode of approach
Whose manner he might follow
Into every corner of the human moil.
âTo go to the city,â heâd once proclaimed,
âis the changeless desire of the mind.â
Now that heâs done so heâs come to believe
That all such desires are âchemic,â
Part of the tangle of circumstance
And chance, the very contagion of things
Among which heâll soon loose Carrie Meeber,
The vague entourage of her dreams.
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