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Books by Robert Pinsky
  | | The Figured Wheel New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1997 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52506-4, ISBN: 0-374-52506-4 "The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience." Both the transformation of the familiar and the uttering of what has been hitherto mute or implicit in our cul ..." |
 | | The Life of David(Reprint) (Jewish Encounters Series) by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Schocken ISBN-13: 978-0-8052-1153-5, ISBN: 0-8052-1153-5 "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, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David s life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his ..." |
 | | The Sounds of Poetry(1st Edition) A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1999 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52617-7, ISBN: 0-374-52617-6 "While it's hardly the most traveled of literary destinations, poetry has suffered from no shortage of guidebooks. Still, these poetic baedekers tend to get bogged down in terminology and historical hairsplitting, while the actual music gets lost in the shuffle. We should be thankful, then, for Robert Pinsky's brief, wonderfully readable volume, in which he zooms in on verse as acoustic artifact: "When I say to myself a poem by Emil ..." |
 | | Americans' Favorite Poems(1st Edition) by Favorite Poem Project, Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz, Robert Pinskey, Edited By Hardcover, 327 Pages, Published 1999 by W. W. Norton & Company Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04820-9, ISBN: 0-393-04820-9 "This anthology embodies Robert Pinsky's commitment to discover America's beloved poems, his special undertaking as Poet Laureate of the United States.The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood; some crystallize the passion of love or ..." |
 | | Singing School(1st Edition) Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34897-2, ISBN: 0-393-34897-0 "“Magnificent . . . poems to inspire [with] brief and brilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, monumentally enduring poems and how they are ma ..." |
 | | At the Foundling Hospital(Reprint) Poems by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53729-6, ISBN: 0-374-53729-1 "“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 siècle, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky.” ―James Longenbach, The NationWith all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from our three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pins ..." |
 | | Singing School(1st Edition) Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters by Robert Pinsky Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05068-4, ISBN: 0-393-05068-8 "A bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, monumentally enduring poems and how they are made— in terms borrowed from the “s ..." |
 | | Thousands of Broadways Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town (The Rice University Campbell Lectures) by Robert Pinsky Hardcover, 106 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66944-1, ISBN: 0-226-66944-0 "Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinskyâs home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of Americaâs most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of ..." |
 | | An Explanation of America (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) by Robert Pinsky, Susan Pinsky Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1979 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-01360-2, ISBN: 0-691-01360-8 " From An Explanation of America LAIR Robert Pinsky Inexhaustible, delicate, as ifWithout source or medium, daylightUndoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright, Scattering to where the roadWhispers, through a mile of woods Later, how quiet the house is: Dusk-like and refined, The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees;The calm globe of the morning, Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brainA dark, stubbo ..." |
 | | Sadness and Happiness(Reprint) by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 74 Pages, Published 1975 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-01322-0, ISBN: 0-691-01322-5 "From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky ? Against weather, and the randomHarpies--mood, circumstance, the lawsOf biography, chance, physics--The unseasonable soul holds forth,Eager for form as a renownedPedant, the emperor's man of worth,Hereditary arbiter of manners. Soul, one's life is one's enemy.As the small children learn, what happensTakes over, and what you were goes away.They l ..." |
 | | Poetry And The World(11th Edition) by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1992 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-88001-217-1, ISBN: 0-88001-217-X "A collection of sharp, entertaining, and informative essays by poet Robert Pinsky, Poetry and the World is a passionate inquiry into poetry's place in the modem world. Combining the arts of criticism and autobiography, Pinsky writes about poets as diverse as Walt VVhitman and Philip Freneau, Marianne Moore and Frank O'Hara, about a visit to Poland during the early days of Solidarity, and his own childhood in a seedy New Jersey resort to ..." |
 | | The Situation of Poetry(1st Edition) by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1978 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-01352-7, ISBN: 0-691-01352-7 "In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other. The author ranges for his often surprising examples from Keats to the great modernists such as Stevens and Wi ..." |
 | | An Invitation to Poetry(1st Edition) A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology (Student Edition) by Maggie Dietz, Robert Pinsky, Rosemarie Ellis Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92838-9, ISBN: 0-393-92838-1 "The widely acclaimed Favorite Poem Project anthology, An Invitation to Poetry, edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz, is now available in a value-priced student paperback edition.Bringing together 200 poems chosen by American readers, the anthology includes work by Sappho, Keats, Rilke, Whitman, and Dickinson, as well as by contemporary poets. The selections are introduced by people from all walks of life—a construction worker, ..." |
 | | The Inferno of Dante A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition (Italian Edition) by Professor Robert Pinsky, John Freccero, Dante Alighieri, Michael Mazur Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1996 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52452-4, ISBN: 0-374-52452-1 |
 | | Gulf Music(1st Edition) Poems by Robert Pinsky Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-16749-3, ISBN: 0-374-16749-4 "Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and hisShuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciationAnd invention, is this the image of the promised end?All music haunted by all the music of the dead forever.Becky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandonedFor love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah walla-woe. ..." |
 | | The Life of David(1st Edition) (Jewish Encounters) by Robert Pinsky Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Schocken ISBN-13: 978-0-8052-4203-4, ISBN: 0-8052-4203-1 "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, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his ..." |
 | | Jersey Rain(1st Edition) by Robert Pinsky Hardcover, 52 Pages, Published 2000 by Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-17887-1, ISBN: 0-374-17887-9 "Impassioned, Personal Poems From America's Poet Laureate. It spends itself regardless into the ocean. It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction, The chilly liquefaction of day to night, The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one: It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River, Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne. I feel it churning even in fair weather To craze distinction, dry ..." |
 | | The Sounds of Poetry(1st Edition) A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky Hardcover, 129 Pages, Published 1998 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-26695-0, ISBN: 0-374-26695-6 "While it's hardly the most traveled of literary destinations, poetry has suffered from no shortage of guidebooks. Still, these poetic baedekers tend to get bogged down in terminology and historical hairsplitting, while the actual music gets lost in the shuffle. We should be thankful, then, for Robert Pinsky's brief, wonderfully readable volume, in which he zooms in on verse as acoustic artifact: "When I say to myself a poem by Emily Dic ..." |
 | | The Want Bone by Robert Pinsky Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 1991 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-88001-251-5, ISBN: 0-88001-251-X "Civilization in all of its horror and ugliness and its beauty consists of, you know, it's really all the work of Shiva, the Hindu god with the hammer who makes and breaks any artifact you look at." -- Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky" |
 | | An Invitation to Poetry A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology by Maggie Dietz, Robert Pinsky, Rosemarie Ellis, Favorite Poem Project Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05876-5, ISBN: 0-393-05876-X "A multimedia collection of poems introduced by American readers, featuring a DVD including a video introduction by Robert Pinsky. For a reader unaccustomed to reading poetry, or who has fallen away from the custom, this collection offers an inviting way into the art, or back into it. For readers devoted to poetry, it offers illuminating examples of the infinitely various ways a poem reaches a reader. In both the book and the video ..." |
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