The Empty Loom

by Robert Gibb

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557289905
• ISBN13: 9781557289902
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 69 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"