The Want Bone

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by Robert Pinsky

Ecco Press

Due/Published July 1991, pages, paper

ISBN 088001251x

"...poems as spirited and weighty, eloquent and startling, as any poet of hisgeneration can summon."(— The New Republic)

"The Want Bone is about the conflicting and overlapping metaphysics of Judaism and Christianity, about history as an invisible presence, about the creative and destructive potential of the imagination, about the drives and powers that shape us and that we in turn transfigure into the emblems and artifacts of culture, into, say, weapons and songs, the strife and music of desire itself. lt is Robert Pinsky's riskiest and most imaginative book of poems."(— The New York Times Book Review)

"His unmistakable identity as one of America's most inventive poets is even more apparent in these pages than in any of his previous books."(— Chicago Tribune)