The Want Bone (American poetry series) - Softcover

..".poems as spirited and weighty, eloquent and startling, as any poet of hisgeneration can summon."-- "The New Republic"""The Want Bone" is about the conflicting and overlapping metaphysics of Judaism and Christianity, about history as an invisible presence, about the creative and destructive potential of the imagination, about the drives and powers that shape us and that we in turn transfigure into the emblems and artifacts of culture, into, say, weapons and songs, the strife and music of desire itself. lt is Robert Pinsky's riskiest and most imaginative book of poems."-- "The New York Times Book Review""His unmistakable identity as one of America's most inventive poets is even more apparent in these pages than in any of his previous books."-- "Chicago Tribune"

The Want Bone, "It’s largely about making, which is also destroying. Civilization in all of its horror and ugliness and its beauty consists of, you know, it’s really all the work of Shiva, the Hindu god with the hammer who makes and breaks any artifact you look at."
-- Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky