What the Heart Can Bear: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1979-1993

by Robert Gibb

Poetry. "For Robert Gibb, 'almost nothing' is 'almost enough, ' and his achievement in this long-awaited and essential collection of his early books lies in the results of his labor: 'The work of memory is permanence.' Gibb is one of the folks to whose work I turn when I seem to forget how poems are written, or how they should be written. This book belongs among those worn American classics crammed on the rough-hewn shelf nailed onto the mudroom wall."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193287030X
• ISBN13: 9781932870305
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Autumn House Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Electric poems

Robert Gibb has a stunning eye for detail. What The Heart Can Bear is masterful, graceful, a seductive collection of poems in which nature comes alive. I recommend this collection highly.