The Figured Wheel
| Author | : Robert Pinsky |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1996-04-30 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780374154936 |
The Figured Wheel
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Jersey Rain
| Author | : Robert Pinsky |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 2015-08-04 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1466894318 |
Impassioned, Personal Poems From America's Poet Laureate "It spends itself regardless into the ocean. It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction, The chilly liquefaction of day to night, The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one: It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River, Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne. I feel it churning even in fair weather To craze distinction, dry the same as wet." --from "Jersey Rain" Jersey Rain--at once masterly and intimate--marks a fresh, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Poems like "Samurai Song," "ABC," "Ode to Meaning," "To Television," and "The Green Piano" have already attracted a wide readership. Now, assembled in this book, they become part of a larger, fugue-like meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, the brilliant messenger and trickster of heaven.
Selected Poems
| Author | : Robert Pinsky |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2014-08-19 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1466878487 |
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.
The Sounds of Poetry
| Author | : Robert Pinsky |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2014-08-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1466878495 |
The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing." As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the "technology" of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are "performed" in us when we read them aloud. He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets--from Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to W. C. Williams, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart. This ideal introductory volume belongs in the library of every poet and student of poetry.
History of My Heart
| Author | : Robert Pinsky |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 62 |
| Release | : 2014-08-19 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 146687841X |
History of My Heart, winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize, first appeared in 1984. In The New Republic, J.D. McClatchy called it "one of the best books of the past decade." It is Pinsky's third volume of poems--and an ideal introduction to the work of a vital and original contemporary American poet.
At the Foundling Hospital
| Author | : Robert Pinsky |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 81 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0374158118 |
"At the Foundling Hospital considers the foundling soul: its need to be adopted, and its need to be adaptive. These poems reimagine identity on the scale of one life or of human history: from 'the emanation of a dead star still alive' to the 'pinhole iris of your mortal eye'"--Amazon.com.
Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office
| Author | : United States. Patent Office |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1104 |
| Release | : 1874 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Modern Poetry after Modernism
| Author | : James Longenbach |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 1997-11-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0195356357 |
In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough" narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse range of poets--John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur--Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid- century have not so much disowned their modernist past as extended elements of modernism that other readers have suppressed or neglected to see. In the process, Longenbach allows readers to experience the wide variety of poetries written in our time-- without asking us to choose between them.
Catalogue of the Mechanical Engineering Collection in the Science Museum, South Kensington
| Author | : Science Museum (Great Britain) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 1919 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Figuring Shit Out
| Author | : Amy Biancolli |
| Publisher | : Behler Publications, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2014-09-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1933016469 |
"Your life isn't over." My dad says this. "I mean, YOUR life isn't over. Beyond the kids. You'll go on living, doing things. This isn't it." I know, I assure him. I have the kids. They need me. They're my life now. "OK," he replies, then grunts—more of a brief hum. He only hums when he thinks I'm full of shit. Shockingly single. Amy Biancolli's life went off script more dramatically than most after her husband of twenty years jumped off the roof of a parking garage. Left with three children, a three-story house, and a pile of knotty psychological complications, Amy realizes the flooding dishwasher, dead car battery, rapidly growing lawn, basement sump pump, and broken doorknob aren't going to fix themselves. She also realizes that "figuring shit out" means accepting the horrors that came her way, rolling with them, slogging through them, helping others through theirs, and working her way through life with love and laughter. Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist whose column appears in the Albany Times Union. Before that, Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Biancolli is the author of House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year. Amy lives in Albany, New York, with her three children.
