{"product_id":"at-the-foundling-hospital-9780374537296","title":"At the Foundling Hospital","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did . . . But among the many writers who have come of age in our \u003ci\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/i\u003e, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky.\" --James Longenbach\u003ci\u003e, The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from our three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyrical meditation 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Pinsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Pinsky\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eGulf Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Jersey Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Want Bone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Figured Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e. His bestselling translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno of Dante\u003c\/i\u003e sets a modern standard. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. Among his awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the PEN\/Voelcker Award, the Korean Manhae Prize, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42878169972851,"sku":"9.78037E+12","price":21.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_101b1dec-4874-4560-a093-d25c6cf88cbb.jpg?v=1740656231","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/at-the-foundling-hospital-9780374537296","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}