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Also by Robert Pinsky:

Selected Poems, April 2011
Hardcover
Gulf Music: Poems, October 2008
Trade Size
The Life of David, September 2005
Hardcover
An Explanation Of America, August 1979
Paperback

SELECTED POEMS
By: Robert Pinsky

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2011
On Sale: April 12, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 0374258600
EAN: 9780374258603
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry

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.

Media Buzz

PBS News Hour - May 20, 2011