Jersey Rain

Poems

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<p>Cathartic, refreshing new work by the American favorite</p><p><i>Tiptoe on the globe. Gazing</i><br><i>nowhere in particular, the slender</i><br><i>Thunderer surrounded by thunder,</i></p><p><i>Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled "Spirit</i><br><i>Of Communication"---unhistorical,</i><br><i>Pure, the merciless messenger.</i></p><p>--from "A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties"</p><p>Innovative, engaging poems from a leading American poet.</p><p>Stone wheel that sharpens the blade that mows the grain,Wheel of the sunflower turning, wheel that turnsThe spiral press that squeezes the oil expressedFrom shale or olives. Particles that turn mudOn the potter's wheel that spins to form the vesselThat holds the oil that drips to cool the blade.--from "Biography"Jersey Rain takes up a central American subject: the emotional power of inventions, devices, and homemade imaginings -- from the alphabet and the lyre through the steel drum and piano to the record player, digital computer, and television. Formally innovative and highly readable poems like "ABC," "Ode to Meaning," "To Television," and "The Green Piano" meditate a life guided by the quick, artful tinkerer-god Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, brilliant messenger, and trickster of heaven.</p><p><i>Tiptoe on the globe.</i><br><i> Gazing</i><br><i>nowhere in particular, the slender</i><br><i>Thunderer surrounded by thunder,</i></p><p><i>Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled "Spirit</i><br><i>Of Communication"---unhistorical,</i><br><i>Pure, the merciless messenger.</i></p><p>--from "A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties"</p><p><i>Jersey Rain</i> -- at once complex and aboveboard -- marks a new, strong, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Assembled here are poems -- some of the finest of his career -- that together compose a sweeping and embattled meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inve

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780374527723

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

216 x 140 x 4 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Verlag / Hersteller

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL