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A review by shanviolinlove
Jersey Rain: Poems by Pinsky Robert, Robert Pinsky
4.0
Having recently finished Gulf Music, I think that reading Jersey Rain helped me understand the poet behind the poetry more. Several poems in the former collection refer to people that he named and explained in the latter poems (particularly "An Alphabet of My Dead"). I especially love that Robert Pinsky does not expect one to pick up on every allusion, and in fact, the very mystery of it lends to the reader's delight.
Of all the poems in this collection, I love "The Green Piano" the most. Pinsky employs such creative imagery, likening this enormous piano to livestock, to a beast, to an elephant - for size and ivories - this large and living thing. He attaches the piano both to fond memories - "bonging" away at favorite showtunes - and to more emotional ones, such as his mother's terrible fall. I was laughing aloud when reading parts of this to my pianist husband; we took such delight from such a well-crafted poem.
Of all the poems in this collection, I love "The Green Piano" the most. Pinsky employs such creative imagery, likening this enormous piano to livestock, to a beast, to an elephant - for size and ivories - this large and living thing. He attaches the piano both to fond memories - "bonging" away at favorite showtunes - and to more emotional ones, such as his mother's terrible fall. I was laughing aloud when reading parts of this to my pianist husband; we took such delight from such a well-crafted poem.