Jersey breaks : becoming an American poet / Robert Pinsky.
| Author/creator | Pinsky, Robert author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022] |
| Description | xiii, 236 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: I. A Provincial Sense Of Time -- II. Rockwell -- III. Little Egypt -- IV. Change Trains At Summit -- V. The Aristocratic Principle -- VI. Partnership -- VII. Naming Names -- VIII. Ironfoot, Ruveyn And Folkenflik -- IX. Brave, Clean And Reverent -- X. Idolatry -- XI. Teacher -- XII. Music -- XIII. Moving Around -- XIV. A Hat Like That -- XV. Magic Mountain -- XVI. Hyper-Adventures -- XVII. Infernal -- XVIII. All Of The Above -- XIX. "He Does Not Come To Coo" -- XX. American Signs -- XXI. Hergesheimer -- XXII. And Another Thing -- XXIII. The Favorite Poem Project -- XXIV. Immigrant Paths. |
| Abstract | "An alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from "our finest living example of [the American civic poet]" (New York Times). In late-1940s Long Branch, an 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 bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high-school C-student whose obsession with the rhythms and melodies of speech inspired him to write. Pinsky traces the roots of his poetry, with its wide and fearless range, back to the voices of his neighborhood, to music and a distinctly American tradition of improvisation, with influences including Mark Twain and Ray Charles, Marianne Moore and Mel Brooks, Emily Dickinson and Sid Caesar, Dante Alighieri and the Orthodox Jewish liturgy. Jersey Breaks offers a candid self-portrait and, underlying Pinsky's notable public presence and unprecedented three terms as poet laureate of the United States, a unique poetic understanding of American culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780393882056 |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| LCCN | 2022027183 |
| ISBN | 9780393882049 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0393882047 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| Standard identifier# | 40031428094 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3566 .I54 Z46 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |