Gulf Music: Poems - Softcover

Pinsky, Professor Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374531471 ISBN 13: 9780374531478

Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Pinsky was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. Creator and director of the Favorite Poem Project and poetry editor at Slate, he also teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0374531471
• ISBN 13: 9780374531478
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94