{"product_id":"at-the-foundling-hospital-poems","title":"At the Foundling Hospital: Poems","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eWith all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from out three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyrical mediation on identity and culture as hybrid and fluid, violent as well as creative: the enigmatic, maybe universal, condition of the foundling. \u003ci\u003eAt the Foundling Hospital\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What is a particular person? How unique? What is anyone born as? Born with? Born into? The poems of Robert Pinsky’s \u003ci\u003eAt the Foundling Hospital\u003c\/i\u003e engage personality and culture as improvised from loss: a creative effort so pervasive it can be invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985500868688,"sku":"9780374158118B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/at-the-foundling-hospital-poems","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}