<![CDATA[Gulf Music: Poems]]>

false <![CDATA[Gulf Music: Poems]]> 897487 2 <div><div>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. —from “Gulf Music” An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky’s first book of poetry since Jersey Rain (2000). On the large scale of war or the personal scale of family history, in the movements of people and cultures across oceans or between eras, these poems discover connections between things seemingly disparate. Gulf Music is perhaps the most ambitious, politically impassioned, and inventive book by this major American poet.</div></div> 882675 16 10 2007 Gulf Music: Poems total:59|5:1|4:1|3:0|2:1|1:0| 59 235 94 15 3 0 false false Tue Sep 15 20:38:16 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 20:44:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 19:55:51 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 21:11:18 -0700 2009
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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
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