The Figured Wheel
Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 1996-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374154936
Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 1996-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374154936
Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : 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.
Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : 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.
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
Page : 1526 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : 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.
Author : Science Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Machinery
ISBN :
Author : Science Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Science museums
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Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Mechanical engineering
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Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher :
Page : 2424 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : 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.