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Sadness and Happiness
Robert Pinsky
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Description for Sadness and Happiness
Paperback. Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky: CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the random Harpies--mood, circumstance, the laws Of biography, chance, physics-- The unseasonable soul holds forth, Eager for form as a renowned Pedant, the emperor's man of worth, Hereditary arbiter of manners. Soul, one's life is one's enemy. As the small children learn, what happens Takes over, and what you were goes away. They learn it in sardonic soft Comments of the weather, when it sharpens The hard surfaces of daylight: light ... Read more
From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky: CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the random Harpies--mood, circumstance, the laws Of biography, chance, physics-- The unseasonable soul holds forth, Eager for form as a renowned Pedant, the emperor's man of worth, Hereditary arbiter of manners. Soul, one's life is one's enemy. As the small children learn, what happens Takes over, and what you were goes away. They learn it in sardonic soft Comments of the weather, when it sharpens The hard surfaces of daylight: light ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691013220
SKU
V9780691013220
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Reviews for Sadness and Happiness
"Remarkable... What [these poems] are attempting is important: nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience."
Hugh Kenner, The Los Angeles Times Book Review "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 ... Read more
Hugh Kenner, The Los Angeles Times Book Review "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 ... Read more