Lyric poems that tell stories in metered lines and stanzas. 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." Gibb writes lyric poems with grit and grain; poems that tell stories in beautifully metered lines and stanzas that dig into the page like toeholds on a rocky cliff face: perfectly placed, a bit precarious, but lifesaving. -- Booklist Here is memory at its most scalding, intense, and rigorous. -- Eavan Boland [Gibb's] poems are spare and intense and he has a keen eye for imagery . . . the language here is lovely and redemptive. This is a book that needs to be read and re-read. -- The Quail's Quill The Origins of Evening was selected by Eavan Boland for The National Poetry Series in 1997. Robert Gibb has published three previous selections of poetry, one of which, Momentary Days, won the Camden Poetry Award. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.