{"product_id":"at-the-foundling-hospital-robert-pinsky-9780374537296","title":"At the Foundling Hospital: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did . . . But among the many writers who have come of age in our \u003ci\u003efin de si鐵le\u003c\/i\u003e, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky.\" --James Longenbach\u003ci\u003e, The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from our three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyrical meditation on identity and culture as hybrid and fluid, violent as well as creative: the enigmatic, maybe universal, condition of the foundling. \u003ci\u003eAt the Foundling Hospital\u003c\/i\u003e considers the foundling soul: its need to be adopted, and its need to be adaptive. These poems reimagine identity on the scale of one life or of human history: from \"the emanation of a dead star still alive\" to the \"pinhole iris of your mortal eye.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What is a particular person? How unique? What is anyone born as? Born with? Born into? The poems of Robert Pinsky's \u003ci\u003eAt the Foundling Hospital\u003c\/i\u003e engage personality and culture as improvised from loss: a creative effort so pervasive it can be invisible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Pinsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374537291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.20d","brand":"Robert Pinsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245419098367,"sku":"9780374537296","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce3439ab-0867-405c-961e-52fc7d11c8b2.jpg?v=1693927944","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/at-the-foundling-hospital-robert-pinsky-9780374537296","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}