Jersey Breaks - Becoming an American Poet (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Robert Pinsky
Dimensions:	218 x 147 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-88204-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	0-393-88204-7
Barcode:	9780393882049

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