Robert Pinsky
Bio
Opening Poem
Lair
Selected Poems
Jar of Pens
The Forgetting
The Green Piano
Shirt
At Pleasure Bay
Dying
The Street
AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA - A Poem to my Daughter
Part One: Its Many Fragments
I. Prologue: You
II. From the Surface
III. Local Politics
IV. Countries and Explanations
Part Two: Its Great Emptiness
A Love of Death
II. Bad Dreams
III. Horace, Epistulae I, xvi
IV. Filling the Blank
Part Three: Its Everlasting Possibility
I. Braveries
II. Serpent Knowledge
III. Mysteries of the Future
IV. Epilogue: Endings
Last Poem
Memorial
Vocalist - Mark Novak
Poem Source: Selected Poems - Farrar Straus Giroux - 2011
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