Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, collected, new, wheel, figured
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-04-07
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0374525064
ISBN-13: 9780374525064

Katha Pollitt writes that these are "extraordinarily accomplished and beautiful poems." Pinsky is a respected critic and translator and, as a poet, is a genius of sound and lineation. He also excels at the startling image, as when he describes a brain as "humming to itself, / Like a fat person eating M&Ms in the bathtub." The vividness of the image grabs our attention even as its poignancy and cruel edge complicate the tone of this intricate poem ("History of My Heart"). An impressive and moving collection.The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one n

Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: guide, brief, poetry, sounds
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374526176
ISBN-13: 9780374526177

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 w

Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: poetry, situation
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1978-10-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0691013527
ISBN-13: 9780691013527

"A first-rate piece of work. I can’t imagine anyone capable of reading this book and not learning from it."--Hugh Kenner

Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, music, gulf
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374531471
ISBN-13: 9780374531478

Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and hisShuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciationAnd invention, is this the image of the promised end?All music haunted by all the music of the dead forever.Becky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandonedFor love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah walla-woe.—from “Gulf Music”An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky’s first book of poetry since Jersey

Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: david, life
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-09-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0805242031
ISBN-13: 9780805242034

Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his human humiliations. Drawing on the biblical chronicle of David’s life as well as on the later commentaries and the Psalms——traditionally considered to be David’s own words——Pinsky t

Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: contemporary, poets, series, princeton, america, explanation
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1979-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0691013608
ISBN-13: 9780691013602

Author: Mark I. Pinsky
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pre
Keywords: pixie, dust, faith, disney, according, gospel
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-07-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0664225918
ISBN-13: 9780664225919

In this follow-up to his best-selling The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World’s Most Animated Family, religion journalist Mark Pinsky explores the role that the animat