The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 - Hardcover

Pinsky, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374154937 ISBN 13: 9780374154936

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Synopsis

Brings together four previous books of poetry--including Sadness and Happiness and History of My Heart--with such new works as "Avenue," "City Elegies," "Ginza Samba," and "Impossible to Tell."

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Review:

A collection of poems from one of America's most innovative poets, The Figured Wheel illustrates Pinsky's knack for recovering some of the pleasures of prose--storytelling, humor, the rich texture of a world filled with people and ideas--for poetry. In "The Night Game," he recalls himself as a child imagining a Jewish southpaw, "Even more gifted/ Than Whitey Ford" who refuses to pitch on Yom Kippur. In "The New Saddhus," he imagines a multicultural assortment of middle-aged men, "Kurd, Celt, Marxist, Rotarian," setting out on a mysterious pilgrimage. Pinsky's writing gets at the depths of human experience, in which everything is always repeating, but is also always new.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0374154937
• ISBN 13: 9780374154936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320