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published
October 16th 2007
by Farrar Straus Giroux
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Hardcover, 96 pages
isbn
0374167494
(isbn13: 9780374167493)
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Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.
Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.
Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his
Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation
And invention, is this the image of the promised end?
All music haunted by all the music of the dead forever.
Becky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandoned
For love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah walla-woe.
&...more
Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.
Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his
Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation
And invention, is this the image of the promised end?
All music haunted by all the music of the dead forever.
Becky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandoned
For love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah walla-woe.
&...more
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Read in January, 2008
I read this book at the same time as Robert Hass' "Time and Materials," so it was interesting to see how the two Roberts overlap--look for my Hass review soon! (as if I have an adoring public just salivating for my opinions)
The work here in "Gulf Music" is concerned often with the "thinginess" of objects, as well as etymology and language. Many of the poems move by association--"Poem of Disconnected Parts," for example, consists of couplets that almos...more
The work here in "Gulf Music" is concerned often with the "thinginess" of objects, as well as etymology and language. Many of the poems move by association--"Poem of Disconnected Parts," for example, consists of couplets that almos...more
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Read in November, 2007
Even if Robert Pinsky should never give me anything else, I will always hold him in high regard for a provisional answer to a question I've been holding for some time. Did he know what he was doing when he wrote his "Poem of Disconnected Parts"? When I first read the poem in _Poetry_ the words "Culture the lock, culture the key" opened up a path for my own work, the fruits of which remain to be seen. So I gobbled up _Gulf Music_ in search of more of the same. I remember likin...more
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I drowned in the fire of having you, I burned
In the river of not having you, we lived
Together for hours in a house of a thousand rooms
And we were parted for a thousand years.
Ten minutes ago we raised our children who cover
The earth and have forgotten that we existed.
It was not maya, it was not a ladder to perfection,
It was this cold sunlight falling on this warm earth.
I drowned in the fire of having you, I burned
In the river of not having you, we lived
Together for hours in a house of a thousand rooms
And we were parted for a thousand years.
Ten minutes ago we raised our children who cover
The earth and have forgotten that we existed.
It was not maya, it was not a ladder to perfection,
It was this cold sunlight falling on this warm earth.
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Read in March, 2008
pinsky does some astonishing, beautiful things in this collection. i feel that i need to own this one, read it and read it and read it. some poems i definitely liked more than others, but there wasn't one that i found flat.
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Read in January, 2008
An interesting, experimental book of poems, meditations, and songs. Some of these poems impress through music and word choice, others through meaning. Pinky's last two books for me are his best.
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I like good poetry. but this isn't it (despite Pinsky being the Poet Laureate of the US from '97 to 2000.)
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