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Jersey Rain

Poems

Author: Robert Pinsky

Jersey Rain

Jersey Rain

$11.99

About This Book

Impassioned, Personal Poems From America's Poet Laureate

"It spends itself regardless into the ocean.
It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright:
Sweat...

Page Count
80
On Sale
08/04/2015

Book Details

Impassioned, Personal Poems From America's Poet Laureate

"It spends itself regardless into the ocean.
It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright:
Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction,
The chilly liquefaction of day to night,

The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one:
It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River,
Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne.
I feel it churning even in fair weather

To craze distinction, dry the same as wet."
--from "Jersey Rain"

Jersey Rain--at once masterly and intimate--marks a fresh, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Poems like "Samurai Song," "ABC," "Ode to Meaning," "To Television," and "The Green Piano" have already attracted a wide readership. Now, assembled in this book, they become part of a larger, fugue-like meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, the brilliant messenger and trickster of heaven.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781466894310

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Jersey Rain

Jersey Rain

$11.99