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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780805211535
Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and
legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our
collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him
the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former
poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s
life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his
divine destiny and his human humiliations. Drawing on the biblical
chronicle of David’s life as well as on the later commentaries and
the Psalms——traditionally considered to be David’s own
words——Pinsky teases apart the many strands of David’s story and
reweaves them into a glorious narrative.
Under the clarifying and captivating light of Pinsky’s
erudition and imagination, and his mastery of image and expression,
King David——both the man and the idea of the man——is brought
brilliantly to life.
Acknowledgments
David
Cousin Goliath
The King’s Other Daughter
Five Golden Tumors and Five Golden Rats
Smoke from His Nostrils, Devouring Fire
from His Mouth
Moabitage and Mephibosheth
Thou Art the Man
Sons of David
Would God I Had Died for Thee
The Enumerations
I Will Make Thine Enemies Thy Footstool
David in Paradise
Afterword
A Reader’s Guide
”Episode by episode, Pinsky braids narrative together with
literary interpretation and psychological conjecture, drawing out
patterns of correspondence, filling gaps in the record with acutely
engaged speculation. Bypassing the accretions of thirty centuries
of piety and veneration, peering behind the Bible’s spare record of
action and speech, Pinsky seeks to discern the feelings and
intentions of the living person from whom the myth of David
sprang.”
–William Deresiewicz, The New York Times Book Review
”A tour de force of literary imagination, strengthened with
the author’s wisdom and compassion. A truly amazing book.”
–Ha Jin, author of Waiting
”A note-perfect performance, with all the generosity,
understatement, and burnished eloquence familiar to readers of
Pinsky’s poems, translations, and essays. Only a true poet would be
fit to tackle a subject of such centrality and deep fascination.
Pinsky guides us through David’s art and life in a luminous,
moving, and compulsively readable narrative,”
–Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America
”Pinsky’s unique blend of imagination, intellect, and
narrative cunning has enabled him to conjure an unforgettable
portrait. He has at once unraveled and created a figure of mythic
power. A brilliant achievement.”
–Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: How
Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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