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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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

English Renaissance Poetry(Reprint)
A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson (New York Review Books Classics)
by John Williams, Robert Pinsky, John Edward Williams, Professor John Williams
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2016 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-977-2, ISBN: 1-59017-977-3

"Not just English poetry but poetry in English as we know it today was largely invented in England between the beginning of the sixteenth century and 1630. For many years much of the poetry from the era was seen as half baked, undeveloped, little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. From the point of view of the twentieth century and today, however, it seems a time of extraordinary poetic ferment and experimentation. Never since have the p ..."

History of My Heart(Reprint)
Poems
by Professor Robert Pinsky
Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1997 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52530-9, ISBN: 0-374-52530-7