{"product_id":"sadness-and-happiness-poems-by-robert-pinsky","title":"Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRobert Pinsky\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0691013225\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePrinceton University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1975\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReissue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e74\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eSadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cbr\u003eCEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRobert Pinsky\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst weather, and the random\u003cbr\u003eHarpies--mood, circumstance, the laws\u003cbr\u003eOf biography, chance, physics--\u003cbr\u003eThe unseasonable soul holds forth, \u003cbr\u003eEager for form as a renowned\u003cbr\u003ePedant, the emperor's man of worth, \u003cbr\u003eHereditary arbiter of manners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoul, one's life is one's enemy.\u003cbr\u003eAs the small children learn, what happens\u003cbr\u003eTakes over, and what you were goes away.\u003cbr\u003eThey learn it in sardonic soft\u003cbr\u003eComments of the weather, when it sharpens\u003cbr\u003eThe hard surfaces of daylight: light\u003cbr\u003eWinds, vague in direction, like blades \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLavishing their brilliant strokes\u003cbr\u003eAll over a wrecked house, \u003cbr\u003eThe nude wallpaper and the brute\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence of the torn pipes.\u003cbr\u003eTherefore when you marry or build\u003cbr\u003ePray to be untrue to the plain\u003cbr\u003eDominance of your own weather, how it keeps \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGoing even in the woods when not\u003cbr\u003eA soul is there, and how it implies\u003cbr\u003eAlways that separate, cold\u003cbr\u003eSplendidness, uncouth and unkind--\u003cbr\u003eOn chilly, unclouded mornings, \u003cbr\u003eTorrential sunlight and moist air, \u003cbr\u003eLeafage and solid bark breathing the mist.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky | Robert Pinsky | Paperback | 0691013225 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1731028 (temp: 17)","offer_id":48167855489176,"sku":"1731028","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71HqzSQoHBL.jpg?v=1771956818","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/sadness-and-happiness-poems-by-robert-pinsky","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}