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Robert Pinsky Proverbs of Limbo (Paperback). 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. Here, Pinsky embodies a different resistance to different conventions of understanding. Further DetailsTitle: Proverbs of Limbo Condition: New Subtitle: Poems Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0374609152 Author: Robert Pinsky EAN: 9780374609153 ISBN: 9780374609153 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Genre: Poetry & Drama Release Date: 06/10/2025 Description: 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 history or personality and culture: a lifetime's territories of inbetween. The title Proverbs of Limbo tips its hat, at an angle, to the great poet William Blake's Proverbs of Hell. Blake's jagged, contrary proverbs resist, from within, the binary rights and wrongs of conventional Christianity: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"; "The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction." Here, Pinsky embodies a different resistance to different conventions of understanding. "The Buddha," begins the title poem, "is a liquor store / On a busy corner." Language: English Item Height: 202mm Item Length: 132mm Item Width: 8mm Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Weight: 112g Release Year: 2025 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
