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Book Description: FSG. 1 Cloth(s), 2007. hard. Book Condition: New. "The gulf in the title of [three-term Poet Laureate Robert] Pinsky's seventh collection is both the large southern body of water that has been the site of so much weather-related misery, and the unavoidable distances between an author's thoughts and feelings and his expression. Poems from the first section frequently butt up against subjects too large for speech, and break down into music and mystery. The title poem begins with a devastating hurricane in Galveston in 1900 and reaches after fragments and song to recall what was lost: 'O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah wallah-woe.' Another poem describes the ecstasy of forgetting, in which an enraptured audience at once hears and doesn't hear what it's being told. Perhaps most laudable is that Pinsky—a former Poet Laureate and one of America's best-known poets—is not above self-criticism: in writing about peace, his last thought compares his own mind to a monkey 'who fires his sh*t in handfuls from his cage'."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) 83. Bookseller Inventory # 11919

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Book Description: Farrar Straus & Giroux. Book Condition: New. Book is unread, as issued from the publisher. Bookseller Inventory # 0374167494:0:1:1

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Book Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition; First Printing. NO defects, not price clipped (22.00) . No names or any markings. ; 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 Inches; 83 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 46124

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Book Description: Farrar, Straus Giroux Inc, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 235 x 161 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. The gulf in the title of Pinsky's seventh collection is both the large southern body of water that has been the site of so much weather-related misery, and the unavoidable distances between an author's thoughts and feelings and his expression. Poems from the first section frequently butt up against subjects too large for speech, and break down into music and mystery. An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Pinsky's first book of poetry since Jersey Rain. 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. This is perhaps the most ambitious, politically impassioned, and inventive book by this major American poet. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780374167493

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Book Description: FARRAR STRAUS and GIROUX, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9780374167493

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