This text gathers together all Robert Pinsky's poetry, including 21 new poems. The verse essay An Explanation of America (Carcarnet, 1980) remains at the heart of this work. The book also includes Ginza Samba, a history of the saxophone, and Impossible to Tell, a jazz-like poem that combines elegy with the Japanese custom of linking-poems and the American tradition of ethnic jokes. Sadness and Happiness (1975), History of My Heart (1984) and The Want Bone (1990).
This text gathers together all Robert Pinsky's poetry, including 21 new poems. The verse essay An Explanation of America (Carcarnet, 1980) remains at ...
Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street--these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry."
That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including...
Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a bus...
This is a small collection of poems expressing memories and fantasies, but more importantly serve as a backdrop to the discipline shown in the life of my father. Friends, real or fancied, here appear on a different kind of facebook. These faces have not aged in the decades since I first knew them and here they live from my heart, hidden no longer. Some fo the fantasies were inspired by the ficticous characters, "Dino," "Beach Boy," "Hamlet" and the "Saturday Night Fibber." Other poets grateful to have been quoted are: brother John Lash, Robert Pinsky, the former Poet Lauriate, Myra Burt and...
This is a small collection of poems expressing memories and fantasies, but more importantly serve as a backdrop to the discipline shown in the life of...
Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American Poetry This special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume consists of seventy-five poems chosen by a major American poet acting as guest editor--from John Ashbery in 1988 to Mark Doty in 2012, with stops along the way for such poets...
Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American Poetry T...
"Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did . . . But among the many writers who have come of age in our fin de siecle, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky." --James Longenbach, The Nation
With all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from our three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyrical meditation on identity and culture as hybrid and fluid, violent as well as creative: the...
"Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did . ....
