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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Pinsky, Robert

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0374533164
ISBN13: 9780374533168
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: Mar 27 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

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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