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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

By Robert Pinsky
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By Robert Pinsky
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"Truly the voice of the Jersey Shore." —Bruce Springsteen “Evocative.”—New York Times Book Review An alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from three-term poet laureate Robert Pinsky.

In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly ...

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Literary BiographyAmerican Literary BiographyAmerican Poets - Literary BiographyPoets, American->20th century->BiographyPoets, American->21st century->Biography