

Jersey Breaks
Becoming an American Poet
Author: Robert Pinsky
Narrator: Robert Pinsky
Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 03/07/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
Synopsis
Pinsky traces the roots of his poetry, with its wide and fearless range, back to the voices of his neighborhood, to music and a distinctly American tradition of improvisation, with influences including Mark Twain and Ray Charles, Marianne Moore and Mel Brooks, Emily Dickinson and Sid Caesar, Dante Alighieri and the Orthodox Jewish liturgy. He reflects on how writing poetry helped him make sense of life's challenges, such as his mother's traumatic brain injury, and on his notable public presence, including an unprecedented three terms as United States poet laureate.
Candid, engaging, and wry, Jersey Breaks offers an intimate self-portrait and a unique poetic understanding of American culture.