Sadness and Happiness - Poems By Robert Pinsky

Zusatztext "The pleasures of Pinsky. . . . are the unfashionable, or at least the unfamiliar, ones of sanity, the cool entertainment of alternatives, and the conviction. . . that speech. . . is not only interesting but shares with both lyric and nonsense a certainty of resonance. . . ." ---Richard Howard, Poetry Informationen zum Autor Robert Pinsky Klappentext From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNINGRobert PinskyAgainst 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.Soul, one's life is one's enemy.As the small children learn, what happensTakes over, and what you were goes away.They learn it in sardonic softComments of the weather, when it sharpensThe hard surfaces of daylight: lightWinds, vague in direction, like bladesLavishing their brilliant strokesAll over a wrecked house,The nude wallpaper and the bruteIntelligence of the torn pipes.Therefore when you marry or buildPray to be untrue to the plainDominance of your own weather, how it keepsGoing even in the woods when notA soul is there, and how it impliesAlways that separate, coldSplendidness, uncouth and unkind--On chilly, unclouded mornings,Torrential sunlight and moist air,Leafage and solid bark breathing the mist. Zusammenfassung Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Pinsky, Susan Pinsky, Pinsky Robert, Princeton University
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.1975
• EAN: 9780691013220
• ISBN: 978-0-691-01322-0
• No. of pages: 82
• Series: Princeton Series of Contempora; Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; USA, POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets