katrintheresa“Looking at Pittsburgh From Paris”
“‘There be monsters,’ they warn in the blank spaces of the old maps. But the real danger is the ocean's insufficiency, the senseless repetition throughout the empty waters. Calm & storms & calm again”
Coffee, Gourmandise & Pain Au Chocolat
to go—& Jack Gilbert.
“Gilbert using the brutality & beauty of #Pittsburgh its sights & sounds & smells, to make himself into the man and artist he wants to be. In the process, he not only describes the city of his youth—
“‘brick & tired wood.
Ox & sovereign spirit’
…transmutes it into ‘the mind's steel / & the riveted girders of the soul’…
Here, the physical becomes the spiritual. The language of steel”
~Mary Ann Connors Larkin #bookstodon