{"product_id":"9780374715472","title":"At the Foundling Hospital","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\u003eWith all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from out 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121382211824,"sku":"9780374715472","price":9.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374715472_p0.jpg?v=1769913402","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374715472","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}