Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393882047
ISBN13:9780393882049
Release Date:October 2022
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"
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