Selected poems
By: Robert Pinsky
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780374258603
Subjects: American poetry
Other titles: Robert Pinsky, selected poems
Work titles: Poems
Description: This collection selects some of the best poetry by a three time former U.S. poet laureate and winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize. 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, he 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.
Table of contents: title: From; title: Gulf music -- (2007) -- from; title: Jersey rain -- (2000) -- from new poems in; title: The figured wheel -- (1996) -- from; title: The want bone -- (1990) -- from; title: History of my heart -- (1984) -- from; title: An explanation of America -- (1979) -- from; title: Sadness and happiness-- (1975).