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The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems
Paperback
Main Details
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The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Robert Pinsky
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| Series | Poetry Pleiade |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback | | Pages:320 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 231,Width 151 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781857542981
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| Classifications | Dewey:811.54 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Carcanet Press Ltd
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| Imprint |
Carcanet Press Ltd
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| Publication Date |
21 November 1996 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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).
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