Robert Pinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinsky, Robert.

Series:

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.

Summary:

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 author Award-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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Sadness And Happiness (1975)

I. The Time Of Year, The Time Of Day

Poem About People

The Time Of Year, The Time Of Day

Ceremony For Any Beginning

Waiting

December Blues

Discretions Of Alcibiades

Tennis

II. Sadness And Happiness

Sadness And Happiness

III. Persons

To My Father

Old Woman

Library Scene

First Early Mornings Together

The Sentences

Daughter

The Personal Devil

Spelunker

The Generation Before

IV. The Street Of Furthest Memory

The Street Of Furthest Memory

Long Branch, New Jersey

Doctor Frolic

Pleasure Pier

The Destruction Of Long Branch

The Beach Women

V. Essay On Psychiatrists

Essay On Psychiatrists

An Explanation of America (1979)

Lair

An Explanation of America

Part One: Its Many Fragments

I.Prologue: You

II. From the Surface

III. Local Politics

IV. Countries and Explanations

Part Two: Its Great Emptiness

I. A Love of Death

II. Bad Dreams

III. Horace, Epistulæ I, xvi

IV. Filling the Blank

Part Three: Its Everlasting Possibility

I. Braveries

II. Serpent Knowledge

III. Mysteries of the Future

IV. Epilogue: Endings

Memorial.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-27824-5

9780691278247

OCLC:

1583178038