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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374258600
• ISBN13: 9780374258603
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"