Robert Pinsky
Who is Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his poetry. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, Dante Alighieri's Inferno and The Separate Notebooks by Czesław Miłosz. He teaches at Boston University.
Biography
Early life and education
Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey to Jewish parents, Sylvia (née Eisenberg) and Milford Simon Pinsky, an optician. He attended Long Branch High School. He received a B.A. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and earned both an M.A. and PhD ...
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Robert Pinsky Poems
- Poem About People
The jaunty crop-haired graying
Women in grocery stores,
Their clothes boyish and neat,
New mittens or clean sneakers,
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- Shirt
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,
The nearly invisible stitches along the collar
Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians
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- Glory
Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted names
And legends into verses for the chorus to sing:
Names recalled now only in the poems of Pindar:
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- At Pleasure Bay
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay
A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice.
Here under the pines a little off the road
In 1927 the Chief of Police
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- The Green Piano
Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles
Torn free of charge from the universe by my mother's will.
You must have amazed that half-respectable street
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- Bostonsculptors: murray dewart pairs w/ poet robert pinsky to celebrate the well-timed publication of their respective memoirs in "becoming an american artist", at boston athenaeum on 4/26. dewart and pinsky will chat and share stories; details & tickets here:
- Termione: shirt by robert pinsky | poetry foundation
- Mikemcmahonchn: niagara g chad veltri is headed to robert morris out of the portal. he spent 4 years at niagara. last season he played 37 games and posted a 2.78/.906 line. career 2.67/.910 in 97 ncaa games.
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- Rhepstein1: on love, on grief, on every human thing,
time sprinkles lethe's water with his wing.
—walter savage landor
here is a poem that demonstrates how much can be done in just two lines.
—robert pinsky
- Montclairpatch: the montclair public library will be kicking off national poetry month with a visit from three-time u.s. poet laureate, robert pinsky.
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