{"product_id":"at-the-foundling-hospital-poems-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 siècle\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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\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":"Default Title","offer_id":43112002191541,"sku":"9780374537296","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e8267421-3acf-4f3a-936b-9bac36235544.jpg?v=1693926558","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/at-the-foundling-hospital-poems-9780374537296","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}