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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.
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