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  • The Sounds of Poetry

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, "a keenly idiosyncratic account of the place of poetry in our time . . . not only interesting but suspenseful to read" (James Logenbach, The Nation )."Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    Series series
    The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America—announced the arrival of a major new voice in American poetry. Now, these acclaimed books are presented together in a single ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • New Jersey Noir

    by Jonathan Safran Foer, Bradford Morrow, Bill Pronzini, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White, S. J. Rozan ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Discover the darker side of the Garden State with this anthology of gritty mystery stories.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographical area of the book. In New Jersey Noir, a star-studded cast of authors sifts through the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    “****Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.”—Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorFor Robert Pinsky, poetry’s individual, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium—with poems brought to life by one person at a time—gives poetry a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Singing School

    Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    “Magnificent . . . poems to inspire [with] brief and brilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.”—Alan Cheuse, NPRQuick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall

    Poems at the Extremes of Feeling

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    Robert Pinsky, “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), gathers poems that cope with the most extreme human emotions.Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Life of David

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesPoet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Proverbs of Limbo

    Poems

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück).Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in eight years.In this collection, the poet mines and maps limbal regions: those spaces ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • English Renaissance Poetry

    A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson

    Edited by John Williams ...
    AN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONERPoetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet for many years the poetry of the era was considered little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. The twentieth century brought a reevaluation, and the English Renaissance has since come to be recognized as the period of extraordinary poetic experimentation ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Jersey Breaks

    Becoming an American Poet

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    **"Truly the voice of the Jersey Shore." —Bruce Springsteen“Evocative.”—New York Times Book ReviewAn alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from three-term poet laureate Robert Pinsky.**In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Best of the Best American Poetry

    25th Anniversary Edition

    Edited by David Lehman ...
    Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sadness And Happiness

    Poems by Robert Pinsky

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    Series series Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
    From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNINGRobert PinskyAgainst weather, and the randomHarpies--mood, circumstance, the lawsOf biography, chance, physics--The unseasonable soul holds forth,Eager for form as a renownedPedant, the emperor's man of worth,Hereditary arbiter of manners.Soul, one's life is one's enemy.As the small children learn, what happens... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD