An Explanation of America / / Robert Pinsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Pinsky, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 156
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (80 p.)

From An Explanation of America:LAIR Robert Pinsky ? Inexhaustible, delicate, as ifWithout source or medium, daylightUndoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright,Scattering to where the roadWhispers, through a mile of woods ... Later, how quiet the house is:Dusk-like and refined,The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees;The calm globe of the morning,Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brainA dark, stubborn current that breathesBlood, a deaf wadding, The hands feeding it paperAnd sensations of wood or metalOn its own terms. Trying to read I persist a while, finish the recognitionBy my breath of a dead giant's breath--Stayed by the space of a rhythm, Witnessing the blue gulf of the air.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LAIR -- AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA -- Part One: Its Many Fragments -- Part Two: Its Great Emptiness -- Part Three: Its Everlasting Possibility -- MEMORIAL