Proverbs of Limbo
Poems
$35.46
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Proverbs of Limbo, Robert Pinsky’s first new book of poetry in eight years, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders.
In this collection, the poet mines limbal regions, those spaces between differences that can be at once generative and oppressive, enlightening and dark, exciting and fatal. For Pinsky, they include the familiar borders between demographic categories, as well as more personal borderlands, such as the fringes between family history and world …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374609153 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0374609152 |
| Author: | Robert Pinsky |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 135mm x 206mm |
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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky’s books of poetry include At the Foundling Hospital, Gulf Music, Jersey Rain, The Want Bone, and The Figured Wheel (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). His bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante set a modern standard. He was the poet laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. Among his awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the Manhae Prize, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University.
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