{"product_id":"proverbs-of-limbo-poems-1","title":"Proverbs of Limbo: Poems","description":"A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer \"rarely equalled\" (Louise Glück).\n\nRobert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in eight years.\n\nIn this collection, the poet mines and maps limbal regions: those spaces between differences that can be at once creative and oppressive, enlightening and dark, exciting and fatal. For Pinsky, they include the familiar borders between demographic categories, as well as limbal realities that are more personal―clashing ways of understanding, personal history and world history, health and illness, freedom and compulsion, intimacy and community, personality and culture―all the countless variations of in-between.\n\nThe title Proverbs of Limbo tips its hat, at an angle, to the great poet William Blake’s Proverbs of Hell. Blake’s jagged, contrary proverbs resist, from within, the binary rights and wrongs of conventional Christianity: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom”; “The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”\n\nHere, Pinsky embodies a different resistance to different conventions of understanding. “The Buddha,” begins the title poem, “is a liquor store \/ On a busy corner.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374611955\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0374611955.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Pinsky, Robert\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44373690023997,"sku":"BVV.0374611955.G","price":6.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0374611955-0.jpg?v=1793831359","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/proverbs-of-limbo-poems-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}