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At the Foundling Hospital

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“Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did . . . But among the many writers who have come of age in our fin de siècle, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky.” —James Longenbach, The Nation With all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from our three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyrical meditation on identity and culture as hybrid and fluid, violent as well as creative: the enigmatic, maybe universal, condition of the foundling. At the Foundling Hospital considers the foundling soul: its need to be adopted, and its need to be adaptive. These poems reimagine identity on the scale of one life or of human history: from “the emanation of a dead star still alive” to the “pinhole iris of your mortal eye.” What is a particular person? How unique? What is anyone born as? Born with? Born into? The poems of Robert Pinsky’s At the Foundling Hospital engage personality and culture as improvised from loss: a creative effort so pervasive it can be invisible.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780374537296
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Udgivet:
  • 3. oktober 2017
  • Størrelse:
  • 129x205x8 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 108 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 7. december 2024

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“Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did . . . But among the many writers who have come of age in our fin de siècle, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky.” —James Longenbach, The Nation
With all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from our three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyrical meditation on identity and culture as hybrid and fluid, violent as well as creative: the enigmatic, maybe universal, condition of the foundling. At the Foundling Hospital considers the foundling soul: its need to be adopted, and its need to be adaptive. These poems reimagine identity on the scale of one life or of human history: from ΓÇ£the emanation of a dead star still aliveΓÇ¥ to the ΓÇ£pinhole iris of your mortal eye.ΓÇ¥
What is a particular person? How unique? What is anyone born as? Born with? Born into? The poems of Robert PinskyΓÇÖs At the Foundling Hospital engage personality and culture as improvised from loss: a creative effort so pervasive it can be invisible.

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