Selected Poems SIGNED Robert Pinsky TPB

Description: "Pinsky is an important figure. He is also, as Tony Hoagland has rightly observed, a much stranger poet than is generally acknowledged.! This abiding strangeness, this ability to perpetually surprise us with his jittery music, oddhall catalogues, and outright collage-making - gestures that at the same time are impeccably crafted and as often as not shaped into stately couplets and tercets - are one source of Pinsky's significance. He is an exceedingly personal writer ... while at the same time very concerned with public subjects that too many of his generational peers have chosen to neglect ... The temples of the ancient Sumerians employed various priests and functionaries, but one of the most important occupations was that of 'chief lamenter, the reciter and singer of hymns. The chief lamenters' function and artistry were civic, but the best of them must have had voices and individual styles comparable to the idiosyncratic majesty of Robert Pinsky." - DAVID WOJAHN, Tikkun “Intense verbal music, with a jazz feeling; intelligence racing among materials with the varietv of a busy street - these have been the qualitics of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness And Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. 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 exciteinent of poetry." That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his works: the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the lyricism of The Want Bone; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. Selected Poems demonstrates that variety and renewal with fresh clarity. "Pinsky has gotten fiercer as he has gotten older, and the later poems suggest ways to read or reread the earlier ones. Pinsky has become something of a public figure . .. who has not sacrificed the complexities of poetic construction for a false, aw-shucks simplicity. His Selected Poms shows how this was always where he wanted to be. It is a generous selection in all senses of that word. It is a tribute to its quality that it is, at two hundred pages, still too short." - Tablet "Pinsky's poems are striking in their desire to open wide . .. and contain everything, to refuse absolutely to reject anything... Sadness and happiness, beauty and ugliness, peace and violence -each has its place in Pinsky's capacious poetry, for its universe.”

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