The Night Game
Robert Pinsky Some of us believe We would have conceived romantic Love out of our own passions With no precedents, Without songs and poetry-- Or have invented poetry and music As a comb of cells for...
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Robert Pinsky The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or MalaysiansGossiping over tea and noodles on their...
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Robert Pinsky The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Uncurling over the tainted city river, A young girl rowing and her anxious father Scavenging for corpses. Funeral meats. The cleverread more
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Robert Pinsky Dire one and desired one, Savior, sentencer--In an old allegory you would carry A chained alphabet of tokens:Ankh Badge Cross. Dragon, Engraved figure guarding a hallowed intaglio,read more
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Robert Pinsky to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot GilbertSlow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Bashõ and his friends go out to view the moon; In summer, gasoline rainbow in the gutter,read more
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Robert Pinsky A monosyllabic European called Sax Invents a horn, walla whirledy wah, a kind of twisted Brazen clarinet, but with its column of vibrating Air shaped not in a cylinder but in a coneread...
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Robert Pinsky In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice. Here under the pines a little off the road In 1927 the Chief of Policeread more
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Robert Pinsky to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot GilbertSlow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Bashõ and his friends go out to view the moon; In summer, gasoline rainbow in the gutter,read more
View ArticleShirt
Robert Pinsky The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or MalaysiansGossiping over tea and noodles on their...
View ArticleOde To Meaning
Robert Pinsky Dire one and desired one, Savior, sentencer--In an old allegory you would carry A chained alphabet of tokens:Ankh Badge Cross. Dragon, Engraved figure guarding a hallowed intaglio,read more
View ArticleThe Night Game
Robert Pinsky Some of us believe We would have conceived romantic Love out of our own passions With no precedents, Without songs and poetry-- Or have invented poetry and music As a comb of cells for...
View ArticleAt Pleasure Bay
Robert Pinsky In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice. Here under the pines a little off the road In 1927 the Chief of Policeread more
View ArticlePoem With Refrains
Robert Pinsky The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Uncurling over the tainted city river, A young girl rowing and her anxious father Scavenging for corpses. Funeral meats. The cleverread more
View ArticleGinza Samba
Robert Pinsky A monosyllabic European called Sax Invents a horn, walla whirledy wah, a kind of twisted Brazen clarinet, but with its column of vibrating Air shaped not in a cylinder but in a coneread...
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