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Jersey Rain: Poems
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ISBN10: 0374527725
ISBN13: 9780374527723
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Apr 16 2001
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780374527723
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Apr 16 2001
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
Cathartic, refreshing new work by the American favorite
Tiptoe on the globe. Gazingnowhere in particular, the slender
Thunderer surrounded by thunder, Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled Spirit
Of Communication---unhistorical,
Pure, the merciless messenger. --from A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties Innovative, engaging poems from a leading American poet. Stone wheel that sharpens the blade that mows the grain, Wheel of the sunflower turning, wheel that turnsThe spiral press that squeezes the oil expressedFrom shale or olives. Particles that turn mudOn the potter's wheel that spins to form the vesselThat holds the oil that drips to cool the blade.--from BiographyJersey Rain takes up a central American subject: the emotional power of inventions, devices, and homemade imaginings -- from the alphabet and the lyre through the steel drum and piano to the record player, digital computer, and television. Formally innovative and highly readable poems like ABC, Ode to Meaning, To Television, and The Green Piano meditate a life guided by the quick, artful tinkerer-god Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, brilliant messenger, and trickster of heaven. Tiptoe on the globe.
Gazing
nowhere in particular, the slender
Thunderer surrounded by thunder, Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled Spirit
Of Communication---unhistorical,
Pure, the merciless messenger. --from A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties Jersey Rain -- at once complex and aboveboard -- marks a new, strong, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Assembled here are poems -- some of the finest of his career -- that together compose a sweeping and embattled meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, brilliant messenger and trickster of heaven.
nowhere in particular, the slender
Thunderer surrounded by thunder, Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled Spirit
Of Communication---unhistorical,
Pure, the merciless messenger. --from A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties Jersey Rain -- at once complex and aboveboard -- marks a new, strong, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Assembled here are poems -- some of the finest of his career -- that together compose a sweeping and embattled meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, brilliant messenger and trickster of heaven.
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