Long Branch, USA: Robert Pinsky's Extended Metaphor for Tenuous Social Capital in America.

The article offers a criticism of several poems by the American poet Robert Pinsky, including "A Long Branch Song," "Long Branch, New Jersey" and "Waiting." An overview of Pinsky's depiction in his poems of Long Branch, New Jersey to metaphorically convey social capital in the U.S., including through referencing the sociologist Robert Putnam's theory on social capital, is provided.