Description
Book SynopsisExplores the dreams and nightmares of small towns - their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. This book considers how small towns can be small-minded - in some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial.
Trade Review"What makes Mr. Pinsky such a rewarding and exciting writer is the sense he gives... of getting at the depths of human experience, in which everything is always repeated but also always new." - New York Times Book Review "Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once.... But among the many writers who have come of age in our fin de siecle, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator, than Robert Pinsky." - Nation"
