{"product_id":"9781466894310","title":"Jersey Rain: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eImpassioned, Personal Poems From America's Poet Laureate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"It spends itself regardless into the ocean.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe chilly liquefaction of day to night,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI feel it churning even in fair weather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo craze distinction, dry the same as wet.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Jersey Rain\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJersey Rain\u003c\/i\u003e--at once masterly and intimate--marks a fresh, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Poems like \"Samurai Song,\" \"ABC,\" \"Ode to Meaning,\" \"To Television,\" and \"The Green Piano\" have already attracted a wide readership. Now, assembled in this book, they become part of a larger, fugue-like meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, the brilliant messenger and trickster of heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170993946864,"sku":"9781466894310","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466894310_p0.jpg?v=1769892222","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466894310","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}