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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

Current price: $19.99
Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

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"Truly the voice of the Jersey Shore." —Bruce Springsteen “Evocative.”—
New York Times Book Review
An alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from three-term poet laureate Robert Pinsky.
In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high school C student, whose obsession with the rhythms and melodies of speech inspired him to write.
Pinsky traces the roots of his poetry, with its wide and fearless range, back to the voices of his neighborhood, to music and a distinctly American tradition of improvisation, with influences including Mark Twain and Ray Charles, Marianne Moore and Mel Brooks, Emily Dickinson and Sid Caesar, Dante Alighieri and the Orthodox Jewish liturgy. He reflects on how writing poetry helped him make sense of life’s challenges, such as his mother’s traumatic brain injury, and on his notable public presence, including an unprecedented three terms as United States poet laureate.
Candid, engaging, and wry,
Jersey Breaks
offers an intimate self-portrait and a unique poetic understanding of American culture.

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