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02254aam a22003618i 4500 001 03BCF8882A8711EDB7025AE94EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220902011726 008 220610s2022 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022027183 020 $a 0393882047 020 $a 9780393882049 035 $a (OCoLC)1294289228 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GK8 $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3566 I54 Z46 2022 100 1 $a Pinsky, Robert, $e author. 245 10 $a Jersey breaks : $b becoming an American poet / $c Robert Pinsky. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2210 264 1 $a New York : $b W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., $c [2022] 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "An alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from "our finest living example of [the American civic poet]" (New York Times). In late-1940s Long Branch, an 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. Jersey Breaks offers a candid self-portrait and, underlying Pinsky's notable public presence and unprecedented three terms as poet laureate of the United States, a unique poetic understanding of American culture"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Pinsky, Robert. 650 0 $a Poets, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 941 $a 5 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012022026.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030636.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20230720010237.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203065854.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20221011010118.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=03BCF8882A8711EDB7025AE94EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search