The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling

by Robert Pinsky

Book Overview

Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall--its title inspired by a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem--acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound.

With seven illuminating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132400178X
• ISBN13: 9781324001782
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.9"