Pinsky Robert 1940 (1 results)

PAPERBACK, very good, light wear to corners, a few top page corners dinged. SIGNED with nice round letters in black ink on title page simply: Robert Pinsky. PINSKY, ROBERT. Jersey rain. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001, stated First paperback edition, 52pp., . Hermes, the great trickster god of music and deception, guides readers through this poetic meditation on the great themes of life by America's Poet Laureate 1997-2000. - CONTENTS: Samurai song -- Vessel -- Ode to meaning -- Autumn quartet -- ABC -- An alphabet of my dead -- The haunted ruin -- To the phoenix -- A phonebook cover Hermes of the nineteen-forties -- The cycles -- Porch steps -- The superb Lily -- Summer in Saratoga Springs -- To television -- The green piano -- Machines -- Victrola -- Song -- Steel drum variations -- The hall -- The tragic chorus -- In memory of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan -- Biography -- At the Worcester Museum -- The knight's prayer -- Jersey rain. 9780374527723 ISBN 0374527725.