An Explanation of America / / Robert Pinsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Pinsky, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 156
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (80 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; LAIR --; AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA --; Part One: Its Many Fragments --; Part Two: Its Great Emptiness --; Part Three: Its Everlasting Possibility --; MEMORIAL
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691215129; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691215129?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Pinsky.

From An Explanation of America:LAIR Robert Pinsky ? Inexhaustible, delicate, as ifWithout source or medium, daylightUndoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright,Scattering to where the roadWhispers, through a mile of woods ... Later, how quiet the house is:Dusk-like and refined,The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees;The calm globe of the morning,Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brainA dark, stubborn current that breathesBlood, a deaf wadding, The hands feeding it paperAnd sensations of wood or metalOn its own terms. Trying to read I persist a while, finish the recognitionBy my breath of a dead giant's breath--Stayed by the space of a rhythm, Witnessing the blue gulf of the air.