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Jersey Breaks - Becoming an American Poet (Hardcover)
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Jersey Breaks - Becoming an American Poet (Hardcover)
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In late-1940s Long Branch, an historic but run-down Jersey Shore
resort town, in a neighbourhood 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
neighbourhood, 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.
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