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Poems deal with the unseen presence of history, the evolution of desire, the creative genius in an ordinary shirt, the life of a diamond cutter, and the perspectives of religion
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Most lyric poetry turns and tumbles in the bittersweet pathos of desire; the human heart and its fantasies have been Pinsky's subject for many years. His last book, History of My Heart , tried to locate the source of desire in autobiography. The new volume, a kind of sequel, largely avoids personal subject matter in order to explore the manifestations of desire in religious and mythological stories, from those of the Hindu gods Shiva and Parvati to Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar and--in a stunning prose piece, "Jesus and Isolt"--the fabled lovers Tristram and Isolt. One could call his subject desire in the abstract; the poet addresses "The old conspiracy of gain and pleasure / Flowering in the mind greedily to build the world / And break it." His writing is lush as Pinsky tries to remove himself from the Augustan mode of his earlier work--sentences sprawl over tercets and shift direction suddenly. This may be his best book; it is certainly his best collection of lyric poetry.
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The elegantly crafted poems in Pinsky's accomplished fourth collection take as their theme the quenchless desires of the heart, "the legendary muscle that wants and grieves,/ the organ of attachment, the pump of thrills/ and troubles." In full command of his art and vision, Pinsky uses religion and myth to explore the connection between language and being and the often tragic dimensions of human want. His poetry has a magisterial, chill beauty that ironically accentuates the vast hunger of need in us all. Like the "muttering gods" who in one poem "drink up/lovecries and memorized Chaucer, lines from movies/ and songs hoarded in mortmain," Pinsky draws from a tremendous store of language, both common and erudite. Here is a poet unafraid to probe uncomfortable recesses of experience, or risk thinking large. Recommended for poetry collections.
- Christine Stenstrom, New York Law Sch. Lib.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Black cloth spine and black paper over boards, publishers colophon on front cover, seventy pages. Fine condition except for black remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. In a color illustrated dust jacket with a portrait of the author on back cover, dust jacket bumped at head of spine and top corners, lightly scuffed. "Many the poems engage the perspectives of Judaism and Christianity, especially where the two traditions overlap and collide - or where each struggles to invent the other. The 'want' of the title, The Want Bone - spiritual, sexual, historical, personal - is embodied in the formal inventions that are a hallmark of Pinsky's work, now brought into challenging and memorable new territory." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 13 oz. Category: Poetry; Books; ISBN: 0880012501. ISBN/EAN: 9780880012508. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 009655. Seller Inventory # 009655
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