| Gulf Music: Poems Contributor(s): Pinsky, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374531471 ISBN-13: 9780374531478 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: "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 his Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation And 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 abandoned For 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 Rain "(2000). On the large scale of war or the personal scale of family history, in the movements of people and cultures across oceans or between eras, these poems discover connections between things seemingly disparate. "Gulf Music "is perhaps the most ambitious, politically impassioned, and inventive book by this major American poet. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.25 lbs) 94 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus. Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation And 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 abandoned For 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 Rain (2000). On the large scale of war or the personal scale of family history, in the movements of people and cultures across oceans or between eras, these poems discover connections between things seemingly disparate. Gulf Music is perhaps the most ambitious, politically impassioned, and inventive book by this major American poet. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pinsky, Robert: - A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky was born and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey. In addition to his books of poetry and The Inferno of Dante, he has written prose works, including The Life of David and The Sounds of Poetry. |