{"product_id":"gulf-music-poems-9780374531478","title":"Gulf Music: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.\u003cbr\u003eSephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his\u003cbr\u003eShuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd invention, is this the image of the promised end?\u003cbr\u003eAll music haunted by all the music of the dead forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBecky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandoned\u003cbr\u003eFor love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah walla-woe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--from \"Gulf Music\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky's first book of poetry since \u003ci\u003eJersey Rain \u003c\/i\u003e(2000). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulf Music \u003c\/i\u003eis perhaps the most ambitious, politically impassioned, and inventive book by this major American poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Pinsky\u003c\/b\u003e was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. Creator and director of the Favorite Poem Project and poetry editor at \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, he also teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514079318290,"sku":"9780374531478","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_932e6e4b-ac93-44f9-b5ed-0e5290ef4b9f.jpg?v=1730972674","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gulf-music-poems-9780374531478","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}