Selected Poems

By Robert Pinsky

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374258600
• ISBN13: 9780374258603
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"