JERSEY RAIN: Poems - Brossura

Pinsky, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374527725 ISBN 13: 9780374527723

Casa editrice: Fsg Adult, 2001

Riassunto

Hermes, the great trickster god of music and deception, guides readers through this poetic meditation on the great themes of life by America's Poet Laureate 1997-2000. Reprint.

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L'autore

Robert Pinsky, United States Poet Laureate 1997-2000, has received the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is poetry editor at Slate and teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.

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Cathartic, refreshing new work by the American favorite "Tiptoe on the globe. Gazing""nowhere in particular, the slender""Thunderer surrounded by thunder," "Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled "Spirit""Of Communication"---unhistorical, ""Pure, the merciless messenger." --from "A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties" Innovative, engaging poems from a leading American poet. Stone wheel that sharpens the blade that mows the grain, Wheel of the sunflower turning, wheel that turnsThe spiral press that squeezes the oil expressedFrom shale or olives. Particles that turn mudOn the potter's wheel that spins to form the vesselThat holds the oil that drips to cool the blade.--from "Biography"Jersey Rain takes up a central American subject: the emotional power of inventions, devices, and homemade imaginings -- from the alphabet and the lyre through the steel drum and piano to the record player, digital computer, and television. Formally innovative and highly readable poems like "ABC," "Ode to Meaning," "To Television," and "The Green Piano" meditate a life guided by the quick, artful tinkerer-god Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, brilliant messenger, and trickster of heaven. "Tiptoe on the globe."" Gazing""nowhere in particular, the slender""Thunderer surrounded by thunder," "Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled "Spirit""Of Communication"---unhistorical, ""Pure, the merciless messenger." --from "A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties" "Jersey Rain" -- at once complex and aboveboard -- marks a new, strong, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Assembled here arepoems -- some of the finest of his career -- that together compose a sweeping and embattled meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, brilliant messenger and trickster of heaven.

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• Editore: Fsg Adult
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0374527725
• ISBN 13: 9780374527723
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64