Jersey breaks: becoming an American poet
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9780393882049
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| Grouping Title | jersey breaks becoming an american poet |
| Grouping Author | robert pinsky |
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| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-07-09 05:08:37AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-07-17 05:08:56AM |
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"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."--
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Northeast Regional
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Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
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9780393882049
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2022
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W.W. Norton & Company
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Autobiographies
Pinsky, Robert
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Pinsky, Robert
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Jersey breaks : becoming an American poet
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Jersey breaks : becoming an American poet / Robert Pinsky
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Jersey breaks
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becoming an American poet
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