{"product_id":"jersey-rain-poems-9780374527723","title":"Jersey Rain: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eCathartic, refreshing new work by the American favorite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiptoe on the globe. Gazing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003enowhere in particular, the slender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThunderer surrounded by thunder, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFire zigzag in his grasp, labeled \"Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Communication\"---unhistorical, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePure, the merciless messenger.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from \"A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInnovative, engaging poems from a leading American poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStone wheel that sharpens the blade that mows the grain, Wheel of the sunflower turning, wheel that turnsThe spiral press that squeezes the oil expressedFrom shale or olives. Particles that turn mudOn the potter's wheel that spins to form the vesselThat holds the oil that drips to cool the blade.--from \"Biography\"Jersey Rain takes up a central American subject: the emotional power of inventions, devices, and homemade imaginings -- from the alphabet and the lyre through the steel drum and piano to the record player, digital computer, and television. Formally innovative and highly readable poems like \"ABC,\" \"Ode to Meaning,\" \"To Television,\" and \"The Green Piano\" meditate a life guided by the quick, artful tinkerer-god Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, brilliant messenger, and trickster of heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiptoe on the globe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Gazing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003enowhere in particular, the slender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThunderer surrounded by thunder, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFire zigzag in his grasp, labeled \"Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Communication\"---unhistorical, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePure, the merciless messenger.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from \"A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJersey Rain\u003c\/i\u003e -- at once complex and aboveboard -- marks a new, strong, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Assembled here are poems -- some of the finest of his career -- that together compose a sweeping and embattled meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, brilliant messenger and trickster of heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Pinsky, Pinsky Robert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.55w x 0.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374527723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/22\/2001 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Pinsky\u003c\/b\u003e, United States Poet Laureate 1997-2000, has received the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award. He is poetry editor at\u003ci\u003e Slate \u003c\/i\u003eand teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40507175567475,"sku":"9.78037E+12","price":15.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9ca034ee-72dd-4340-9376-bf8bd48f8a01.jpg?v=1665494597","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/jersey-rain-poems-9780374527723","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}