by RobertPinsky (Author)
This text gathers together all Robert Pinsky's poetry, including 21 new poems. The verse essay An Explanation of America (Carcarnet, 1980) remains at the heart of this work. The book also includes Ginza Samba , a history of the saxophone, and Impossible to Tell , a jazz-like poem that combines elegy with the Japanese custom of linking-poems and the American tradition of ethnic jokes. Sadness and Happiness (1975), History of My Heart (1984) and The Want Bone (1990). Also included are some of Pinsky's translations of Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Celan and others, and the last canto of his version of Dante's Inferno (1994).
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: First UK Edition
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Published: 21 Nov 1996
ISBN 10: 1857542983
ISBN 13: 9781857542981