At the Foundling Hospital by Robert Pinsky
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Overview: The poems in Robert Pinsky’s At the Foundling Hospital consider personality and culture as improvised from loss: a creative effort so pervasive it is invisible. An extreme example is the abandoned newborn. At the Foundling Hospital of eighteenth-century London, in a benign and oddly bureaucratic process, each new infant was identified by a duly recorded token. A minimal, charged particle of meaning, the token might be a coin or brooch or thimble–or sometimes a poem, such as the one quoted in full in Pinsky’s poem “The Foundling Tokens.” A foundling may inherit less of a past than an orphan, but with a wider set of meanings. The foundling soul needs to be adopted, and it needs to be adaptive.
Genre: Poetry
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