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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.
—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.
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Grant Meek
reviewed Gulf Music: Poems on May 04, 2014 Gulf Music: Poems
Pinsky ends this volume with a prose meditation on memory. He asks, "Where in the mess is a true reflection, a lasting truth?" As a historian of objects, of newspapers and books and pliers, of "things" as well as of culture ("Louie Louie," Steven Wright), of mess and always of words, Pinksy is a rare contemporary poet; he seeks "lasting truth" in the world around him, in bright memory as well as in dark memory. Even his confessions exist in history--which sets him apart. But never question his heart. The final poem, a translation "From the Last Canto of Paradise," is a burst of beauty from a poet who always enjoys proving that he's still got the goods.
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