Selected Poems
- ISBN-10
- 1466878487
- ISBN-13
- 9781466878488
- Series
- Selected Poems
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-08-19
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author
- Robert Pinsky
Description
Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street—these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry." That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.
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