Ebook {Epub PDF} Gulf Music: Poems by Robert Pinsky

 · —from "Gulf Music" An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky's first book of poetry since Jersey Rain (). On the large scale of war or the personal scale of family history, in the movements of people and cultures across oceans or between eras, these poems discover connections between things seemingly disparate. Gulf Music. By Robert Pinsky. angle-left. angleRight. JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Poetry. Source: Poetry (October ). All music haunted by all the music of the dead forever. Becky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandoned For love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah walla-woe. ―from "Gulf Music" An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky's first book of poetry since Jersey Rain ()/5(7).

Robert Pinsky. Robert Pinksy's recent books include Singing School, Selected Poems, and Gulf Music. Poetry. William Logan replies: Robert Boyers and I seem to have been reading different poets, both named Robert Pinsky. The loopier moments of Gulf Music are embedded in poems much more cautious and mild mannered; but such moments are not exactly convincing, just as one night of karaoke does not a wild man make. Pinsky's poetry is stolid where it should be searing, sincere where it might be savage. To the Editors: In his December "Verse Chronicle," William Logan writes of Robert Pinsky that in his new book (Gulf Music) he can be "a bit wild," but that "his rashness is the soul of caution."Odd, though, that the very brief samples of palpable wildness Logan quotes are not at all cautious—not, surely, if by cautious one means predictable or unlikely to challenge a reader's.

Robert Pinsky has been writing outstanding poems for more than 30 years “Gulf Music” is his seventh collection but you’re more likely to know him for his poetry advocacy than for his own. Hello Select your address Kindle Store. Robert Pinksy's recent books include Singing School, Selected Poems, and Gulf Music. Become a member We are a public forum committed to collective reasoning and imagination, but we can’t do it without you.