An selected passage from Robert Pi...
An selected passage from Robert Pinsky's An Explanation of America (1979) appeared in the Autumn 1978 issue of Chicago Review. PINSKY lately commented upon "Braveries":
This section from my book-length metrical composition An Explanation of America has been quot and quotationed more than some of the others, maybe because it persuades through a couple of fairly distinct narrative images: the newborn infant recoiling from the sack of Saguntum by the agency of retreating back into the interior recess and the child taking formal lecturings inside afield house, while her somewhat out-of-place father watches. Other sections of An
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