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A translation of the classic poem about a journey through the nine circles of hell.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781574531329 | Unabridged edition (Audio Literature, August 1, 1997), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A translation of the classic poem about a journey through the nine circles of hell.

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Brings together the complete works from four previous books of poetry--Sadness and Happiness, An Explanation of America, History of My Heart, and The Want Bone--along with a dozen new poems and some of Pinsky's notable translations. Reprint. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780374154936 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Brings together four previous books of poetry--including Sadness and Happiness and History of My Heart--with such new works as 'Avenue,' 'City Elegies,' 'Ginza Samba,' and 'Impossible to Tell.

Paperback:

9780374525064 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Brings together the complete works from four previous books of poetry--Sadness and Happiness, An Explanation of America, History of My Heart, and The Want Bone--along with a dozen new poems and some of Pinsky's notable translations.

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Product Description: Want Bone by Robert Pinsky. Ecco Press,1990

Hardcover:

9780880012508 | 1 edition (Ecco Pr, May 1, 1990), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with the unseen presence of history, the evolution of desire, the creative genius in an ordinary shirt, the life of a diamond cutter, and the perspectives of religion

Paperback:

9780880012515 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, August 1, 1991), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Want Bone by Robert Pinsky.

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Essays discuss the relationship of poetry to the glamour and brutality of the world and the immediacy of American life (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780880012164 | 1 edition (Ecco Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the relationship of poetry to the glamour and brutality of the world and the immediacy of American life

Paperback:

9780880012171 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, May 1, 1991), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Essays discuss the relationship of poetry to the glamour and brutality of the world and the immediacy of American life

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Product Description: From An Explanation of America:LAIR Robert Pinsky Inexhaustible, delicate, as ifWithout source or medium, daylightUndoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright,Scattering to where the roadWhispers, through a mile of woods … Later, how quiet the house is:Dusk-like and refined,The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees;The calm globe of the morning,Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brainA dark, stubborn current that breathesBlood, a deaf wadding, The hands feeding it paperAnd sensations of wood or metalOn its own terms...read more

Paperback:

9780691013602 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 1979, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From An Explanation of America:LAIR Robert Pinsky Inexhaustible, delicate, as ifWithout source or medium, daylightUndoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright,Scattering to where the roadWhispers, through a mile of woods … Later, how quiet the house is:Dusk-like and refined,The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees;The calm globe of the morning,Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brainA dark, stubborn current that breathesBlood, a deaf wadding, The hands feeding it paperAnd sensations of wood or metalOn its own terms.

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Product Description: In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other...read more

Paperback:

9780691013527 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 1978, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past.

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Product Description: From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the randomHarpies--mood, circumstance, the lawsOf biography, chance, physics--The unseasonable soul holds forth,Eager for form as a renownedPedant, the emperor's man of worth,Hereditary arbiter of manners...read more

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9780691013220 | Reissue edition (Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1975), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the randomHarpies--mood, circumstance, the lawsOf biography, chance, physics--The unseasonable soul holds forth,Eager for form as a renownedPedant, the emperor's man of worth,Hereditary arbiter of manners.

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