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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
96 pages ISBN: 0374531471 EAN: 9780374531478 Trade Size
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Fiction Poetry
Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu.
Comus. Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo,
Special Forces. Henry formed a group named
Professor Longhair and his Shuffling Hungarians. After so
much renunciation And invention, is this the
image of the promised end? All music haunted by
all the music of the dead forever. Becky
haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandoned For
love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah
walla-woe. —from "Gulf Music" An improvised,
even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a
gulf, informs Robert Pinsky's first book of poetry since
Jersey Rain (2000). On the large scale of war
or the personal scale of family history, in the movements of
people and cultures across oceans or between eras, these
poems discover connections between things seemingly
disparate. Gulf Music is perhaps the most
ambitious, politically impassioned, and inventive book by
this major American poet.
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