An Explanation of America (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Pinsky, Robert

ISBN 10: 0691013608 / ISBN 13: 9780691013602

Published by Princeton University Press, 1979

About this Item

Inscribed by Robert Pinsky to poet Michael Collier on title page. Crease where front cover meets spine. Light edgewear. Inner pages clean and unmarked. BP/Poetry/Signed.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1761759383719

Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Explanation of America (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691013608
• ISBN 13: 9780691013602
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

From An Explanation of America: LAIR Robert Pinsky Inexhaustible, delicate, as if Without source or medium, daylight Undoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright, Scattering to where the road Whispers, through a mile of woods? Later, how quiet the house is: Dusk-like and refined, The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees; The calm globe of the morning, Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brain A dark, stubborn current that breathes Blood, a deaf wadding, The hands feeding it paper And sensations of wood or metal On its own terms. Trying to read I persist a while, finish the recognition By my breath of a dead giant's breath- Stayed by the space of a rhythm, Witnessing the blue gulf of the air.

Review

ƯAn¨ ambitious and immensely likable long poem . . . a poem which--a rare thing--seems to combine intimacy and authority.
[An] ambitious and immensely likable long poem . . . a poem which--a rare thing--seems to combine intimacy and authority. -- The New York Times Book Review
[An] ambitious and immensely likable long poem . . . a poem which--a rare thing--seems to combine intimacy and authority. -- "The New York Times Book Review

Wise and compassionate. . . . It is one of the most readable long poems in recent memory, graspable by all.--Kenneth Funsten "The Los Angeles Times "

I can't imagine anyone who, after reading "An Explanation of America", wouldn't want to return to it again and again.--William H. Pritchard "Poetry "
Wise and compassionate. . . . It is one of the most readable long poems in
recent memory, graspable by all.
--Kenneth Funsten "The Los Angeles Times "
I can't imagine anyone who, after reading "An Explanation of America",
wouldn't want to return to it again and again.
--William H. Pritchard "Poetry "

"I can't imagine anyone who, after reading "An Explanation of America," wouldn't want to return to it again and again."--William H. Pritchard, "Poetry"

"[An] ambitious and immensely likable long poem . . . a poem which--a rare thing--seems to combine intimacy and authority."--The New York Times Book Review

"Wise and compassionate. . . . It is one of the most readable long poems in recent memory, graspable by all."--Kenneth Funsten, The Los Angeles Times