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Also by Robert Pinsky:

Selected Poems, April 2011
Hardcover
Gulf Music: Poems, October 2008
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The Life of David, September 2005
Hardcover
An Explanation Of America, August 1979
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THE LIFE OF DAVID
By: Robert Pinsky

Schocken
September 2005
On Sale: September 6, 2005
224 pages
ISBN: 0805242031
EAN: 9780805242034
Hardcover
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Fiction

Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his human humiliations. Drawing on the biblical chronicle of David’s life as well as on the later commentaries and the Psalms——traditionally considered to be David’s own words——Pinsky teases apart the many strands of David’s story and reweaves them into a glorious narrative.

Under the clarifying and captivating light of Pinsky’s erudition and imagination, and his mastery of image and expression, King David——both the man and the idea of the man——is brought brilliantly to life.

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