Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

by Robert Pinsky

Book Overview

In late-1940s Long Branch, an historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high-school C-student whose obsession with the rhythms and melodies of speech inspired him to write.

Pinsky traces the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393882047
• ISBN13: 9780393882049
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"