An edition of The figured wheel (1996)

The figured wheel

new and collected poems, 1966-1996

1st Noonday Press ed.
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An edition of The figured wheel (1996)

The figured wheel

new and collected poems, 1966-1996

1st Noonday Press ed.
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Robert Pinsky's The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 gathers together all his poetry to date, including twenty-one new poems. The critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's project as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience." Transformation of the familiar and uttering of what had been mute or implicit within culture continue to be central to Pinsky's art.

New poems like "Avenue" and "The City Elegies" envision the city's mysterious epitome of human pain and imagination, forces that recur in "Ginza Samba," an astonishing history of the saxophone, and "Impossible to Tell," a jazz-like work that intertwines elegy with the Japanese custom of linking-poems and the American tradition of ethnic jokes.

A final section of translations includes renderings of poems by Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Celan, and others, as well as the last canto of Pinsky's award-winning version of the Inferno.

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English
Pages
308

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Cover of: The Figured Wheel
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
April 7, 1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: The figured wheel
The figured wheel: new and collected poems, 1966-1996
1997, Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st Noonday Press ed.
Cover of: The figured wheel
The figured wheel: new and collected poems, 1966-1996
1996, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The figured wheel
The figured wheel: new and collected poems, 1966-1996
1996, Carcanett, Carcanet Press Ltd
in English

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Table of Contents

New poems
The want bone (1990)
History of my heart (1984)
An explanation of America (1980)
Sadness and happiness (1975)
Translations.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3566.L27

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 308 p. ;
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18376673M
Internet Archive
figuredwheelnewc0000pins
ISBN 10
0374525064
OCLC/WorldCat
37128487
Library Thing
109354
Goodreads
77457

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