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Proverbs of limbo : poems /

Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in eight years. In this collection, the poet mines and maps limbal regions, those spaces between differe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinsky, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2024].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Poem of names
  • Branca
  • At Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • The funnies
  • Forgiveness
  • Soul making
  • Place name echoes
  • Vocal
  • Country music
  • Revisionary
  • Cataract
  • Nature study
  • Geronimo
  • Beatitudes
  • Not minding
  • At the Paramount
  • In Barcelona
  • La Cucaracha
  • Lenny Bruce
  • Beach glass
  • Being a ghost
  • Cosmopolitan confessions
  • What kind of name is that
  • Privacy
  • Obituary
  • Adagio
  • Repetition
  • Leo Corcey
  • The rag trade
  • Talking
  • In flight
  • Proverbs of limbo
  • At the Sangoma.