The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling - Couverture rigide

Pinsky, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 132400178X ISBN 13 : 9781324001782

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2019

Synopsis

Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall--its title inspired by a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem--acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound.

With seven illuminating chapters and succinct headnotes for each poem, Pinsky leads us through the book's sweeping historical range. Each chapter, with contents chronologically presented from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood, shows the persistence and variation in our states of mind. "The Sleep of Reason" explores sanity and the imagination, moving from William Cowper's "Lines Written During a Time of Insanity" to Nicole Sealey's "a violence." "Grief" includes Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs last in the Door-yard Bloom'd" and Marie Howe's "What the Living Do," and "Manic Laughter" highlights both Lewis Carroll and Martín Espada. Each poem reveals something new about the vastness of human emotion; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry.

Guided by "our finest living example of [the American civic poet]" (New York Times), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall demonstrates how extreme feelings can be complementary and contradicting, and how poetry is not just an expression of emotion, but emotion itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Pinsky is the award-winning author of over twenty volumes of poetry. He served as United States poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. He teaches at Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 132400178X
• ISBN 13: 9781324001782
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible