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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 streetβthese have been the qualities of Robert Pinskyβs 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: βI would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry.β 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 BuzzPBS News Hour - May 20, 2011
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