Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet Fiction_Gift_Guide interweaving history

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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet Fiction_Gift_Guide interweaving history"Truly the voice of the Jersey Shore." Bruce Springsteen In late 1940s Long Branch, a historic but run down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high school C student, whose obsession with the rhythms and melodies of