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Jersey Rain
Robert Pinsky
ISBN 13: 9780374527723
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Softcover
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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 turns
The spiral press that squeezes the oil expressed
From shale or olives. Particles that turn mud
On the potter's wheel that spins to form the vessel
That 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.
Review:
"[Pinsky] has become Yeats's '60-year-old smiling public man,' almost to the year....But the tasks of the public poet usually suit him well, because his intelligence seems, at bottom, less lyrical than discursive, even didactic. This poetic mode is much less favored now than in the past, but as Pinsky proves, it is still able to give pleasure....The pleasure comes less from the poet's perfection as an artifact than from our sense of the poet's sensitive, inquisitive mind at work."
Adam Kirsch, New York Times Book Review, 04/09/2000
Review:"The poems reveal how seemingly commonplace objects hold deeper "messages." Yet these poems are not confined by their personal narratives; rather, Pinsky's contemplation of the recesses of his mind and the fabric of his subjective history has the power to yield insights into the machinations of the human mind in general in its attempt to find, project, and maintain meaning."
David Clippinger, Harvard Review, Fall 2000
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Book Description: Farrar Straus Giroux, United States, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 210 x 141 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. 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 are poems -- 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. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780374527723 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Farrar Straus Giroux. Paperback / softback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Jersey Rain: Poems, Robert Pinsky, 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 are poems -- some of the finest of his career -- that together compose a sweeping andembattled 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. Bookseller Inventory # B9780374527723 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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