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Informationen zum Autor Robert Gibb teaches anthropology and sociology at the University of Glasgow. He has conducted anthropological research on the antiracist movement in France and on questions of translation and interpretation in the asylum process in France and Bulgaria. His most recent publications are 'Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology' (Social Science Information, 2023) and 'Re-Learning Hope: On Alienation, Theory and the "Death" of Universities' (The Sociological Review, forthcoming). Klappentext Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by Eavan Boland. Of the collection, Eavan Boland wrote: "The deft language and lyric intent of these poems serve one purpose: slowly and exactly they expose the dark, silvery images of a lost world. Here is Pittsburgh at twilight, in the old dusk of the steel mills. Here is a drug store, the Monongahela river, the trolleys and the carbarns. And here is memory at its most scalding, intense, and rigorous. This world is never regretted, never mourned for. There is no elegy here because not a single detail in this remarkable landscape has ceased to exist. It is all there, all alive, all available to language. This is a rare and forceful book of poems." Zusammenfassung Lyric poems that tell stories in metered lines and stanzas.
