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Thousands of Broadways
Robert Pinsky
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Description for Thousands of Broadways
Hardback. Explores the dreams and nightmares of small towns - their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. This book considers how small towns can be small-minded - in some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 106 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. "Thousands of Broadways" explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns - their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. The citizens of quintessential small ... Read more
Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. "Thousands of Broadways" explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns - their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. The citizens of quintessential small ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
Series
The Rice University Campbell Lectures
Number of Pages
106
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226669441
SKU
V9780226669441
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About Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is professor of English and creative writing at Boston University and poetry editor of Slate. He is the author of numerous books of poems, most recently Gulf Music and Jersey Rain, He is also the translator of The Inferno of Dante and coeditor of An Invitation to Poetry. Among his numerous honors are the William Carlos Williams Award, ... Read more
Reviews for Thousands of Broadways
"What makes Mr. Pinsky such a rewarding and exciting writer is the sense he gives... of getting at the depths of human experience, in which everything is always repeated but also always new." - New York Times Book Review "Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before ... Read more