Robert Gibb is the author of Sightlines, his thirteenth full-length poetry collection and winner of the 2019 Prize Americana for Poetry. Other books include Among Ruins, which won Notre Dame’s Sandeen Prize in Poetry for 2017; After, which won the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize for 2016; and The Origins of Evening, which was a National Poetry Series selection. He has been awarded two NEA Fellowships, a Best American Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and Prairie Schooner’s Glenna Luschei and Strousse Awards.

• Contents I The Pittsburgh Athletic Association Deskulling the Slag Pots Home Scrap Project: Unemployed Steel Worker, 1987–1988 Musicology Impulse! Last Round: For Rufus Harley Homestead, ca. 1929. Oil on Canvas Worker, Steel Mill The Immanence of 78s On the Removal of the Stephen Foster Statue from Schenley Plaza in Pittsburgh II The Etymologies of Rust Pittsburghese The Play of Memory in Childhood Spaces Phone Booths Telling Time Winter Nights Enlarge the Number of Their Hours Abbott Street Metaphysics Timelines Elegy for the Park Theater III All Hallows Joining the Congregation St. Joseph, Abscondus Voice-Over An End of the Marriage: My Stepmother Buys Twin Beds The Hall Mirror Home Movies Monostiches Varieties of Religious Experience Frances Perkins at the Homestead Post Office IV Bildungsroman The Age of Innocence Park Elementary Summa Theologiae Coal Stove Vandals Deer Season Skinhead Skunk Journal Century Elegies Notes Acknowledgments Series Acknowledgments

Pittsburghese is the language spoken in the pages of this poet’s singular concoction, a mix of keen musicality and uncommon sagacity that wound itself purposely and sinuously through my imagination like the twisty hills and bridges of its hometown. In the tradition of learning the sacred, secret loves of a burnished and bellowed metropolis, this poet’s voice masterfully testifies to neighborhoods and lives doused in enough heat to melt but then forged in enough wry and heart-busted love to craft the wiry steel of these poems. —Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry