An Explanation of America
Robert Pinsky

Paper | 1979 | $13.95
80 pp.

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Reviews:

"[An] ambitious and immensely likable long poem . . . a poem which--a rare thing--seems to combine intimacy and authority."--The New York Times Book Review

"Wise and compassionate. . . . It is one of the most readable long poems in recent memory, graspable by all."--Kenneth Funsten, The Los Angeles Times

"I can't imagine anyone who, after reading An Explanation of America, wouldn't want to return to it again and again."--William H. Pritchard, Poetry

Other Princeton books by Robert Pinsky:

• Cape Cod.
• Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry.
• Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky.
• The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions.

Series:

• Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

Subject Area:

• Poetry

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