Robert Gibb has five longer (all at least a full page in length) poems and unfortunately, the thing that stood out the most to me wasn't specifically the work itself, but the fact that every line, whether it was after a period or not, started with a capitalization. I realize that if you're typing a poem in MS Word this will happen to you, but it's not difficult to remove and replace with lower case letters, so I have to assume that Gibb meant for the work to have this--I just don't understand why.
From "The Knife":
"We have not yet stumbled
Against the furnaces of steel
Mill and marriage.
Tonight
It is his father who careens
Into the room, smiling and drunk,
And holding to his mouth
A blood-soaked towel
And the knife he's been using
To cut loose a tooth.
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