At the Foundling Hospital / Robert Pinsky
- Author
- Pinsky, Robert
- Published
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 63 pages ; 21 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Instrument -- Procession -- Creole -- Mixed Chorus -- Names -- The Orphan Quadrille -- The Foundling Tokens -- Culture -- New Moon Haftorah -- Genesis -- Sayings of the Old -- Grief -- In the Coma -- The City -- The Warming -- Cunning and Greed -- Dream Medicine -- Improvisation on Yiddish -- The Robots -- Horn -- Takes and Gives -- Ceremony -- Evolution of the Host -- Glory -- Running with Noodles -- Genesis According to the Sculptor George Segal -- Light -- Gongora: Life Is Brief -- Radioman -- The Saws.
- Summary
- With all the generosity and mastery with have come to expect from our three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyrical meditation on identity andculture as hybrid and fluid, violent as well as creative. This work 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 deal 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 this work engage personality and culture as improvised form loss: a creative effort so pervasive, it can be invisible.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0374537291
9780374537296
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