{"product_id":"robert-pinsky-selected-poems-9780374533168b","title":"Robert Pinsky: Selected Poems","description":"Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street - these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, \u003ci\u003eSadness and Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: \"I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry.\" That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue \u003ci\u003eAn Explanation of America\u003c\/i\u003e ; the transformed autobiography of \u003ci\u003eHistory of My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e ; the bestselling translation \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno of Dante\u003c\/i\u003e ; and, most recently, the savage, inventive \u003ci\u003eGulf Music\u003c\/i\u003e. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821388533840,"sku":"9780374533168B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374533168-l.jpg?v=1785883494","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/robert-pinsky-selected-poems-9780374533168b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}