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The Inferno of Dante
This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is …
Poems About Sculpture
Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by …
Faith of My Father: My Way to His Way
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 …
The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide
This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the fight to implement …
Thousands of Broadways
Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky s home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. …
Singing School
Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, …
Pangyrus Six
This latest edition of the Cambridge-based literary magazine introduces, in addition to an exciting mix of poetry, ideas essays, fiction, and comics, a new focus on science and on …
Jersey Rain
Cathartic, refreshing new work by the American favorite"Tiptoe on the globe. Gazing""nowhere in particular, the slender""Thunderer surrounded by thunder, ""Fire zigzag in his …
At the Foundling Hospital
"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 …
Explanation of America
From An Explanation of America:LAIRRobert PinskyInexhaustible, delicate, as ifWithout source or medium, daylightUndoes the mind; the infinite,Empty actual is too bright,Scattering …
Life of David
Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesPoet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, …
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished …