Gulf Music Poems
Gulf Music Poems by Robert Pinsky, published by Macmillan on October 16, 2007, is a collection of poetry that explores themes of connection and disconnection across various scales. This first edition, comprising 83 pages, presents an improvised and urgent musicality that seeks knowledge across divides, whether they be personal, cultural, or historical.
Readers will find that the poems in Gulf Music delve into the complexities of human experience, touching on topics such as war and family history. Pinsky’s work captures the interplay of diverse influences, from Sephardic traditions to contemporary issues, revealing how seemingly disparate elements can resonate with one another. This edition invites readers to engage with the intricate relationships that shape our understanding of the world.
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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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