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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 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 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Soul Riffs Unfolding Worlds (Border Voices, Volume 14) by Adrienne Rich, Steve Kowit, Robert Pinsky, Catherine Yi-Yu, Cho Woo, Chris Dickerson, Celia Sigmon, Jack F. Webb Paperback, 177 Pages, Published 2007 by Jack Webb ISBN-13: 978-0-9719906-6-1, ISBN: 0-9719906-6-2 "The 14-year-old Border Voices project operates on the theory that a total immersion in the art of poetry via intensive workshops and an annual Poetry Fair will result in increased verbal skills and dramatically increased scores on standardized tests for K-12 students. The project also believes that these positive effects will be enhanced when students receive public recognition on TV, in books, and in the local newspaper, and when they ..." |
 | | 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. ..." |
 | | Blue Colonial(1st Edition) (APR Honickman 1st Book Prize) by David Roderick, Robert Pinsky Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2006 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9776395-1-9, ISBN: 0-9776395-1-7 " “David Roderick’s poems are exquisitely made with language that is rich and precise. . . . He convinces us that we are all pilgrims committing our acts of courage as well as our little crimes. This book is immensely rewarding.”âJames Tate In Blue Colonial, David Roderick memorializes his hometown by excavating and re-imagining its individual and collective histories. Set in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where English colonists first ..." |
 | | Cape Cod(Updated) (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) by Henry David Thoreau, Robert Pinsky, Joseph J. Moldenhauer Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2004 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-11842-0, ISBN: 0-691-11842-6 "This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings. In the plants, animals, topography, weather, and people of Cape Cod, Thoreau finds "another world" Encounters with the ocean dominate thi ..." |
 | | William Carlos Williams(1st Edition) Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #14) by William Carlos Williams, Robert Pinsky Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2004 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-931082-71-6, ISBN: 1-931082-71-5 "“No poetry is more fresh, more immediate, more deftly challenging,” writes editor Robert Pinsky. “William Carlos Williams is at the center of one of poetry’s greatest historical flowerings.” A poet of astonishing range and inventiveness, Williams was at once a daring formal innovator, one of the band of modernists who transformed American poetry, and an intimate, sometimes savagely frank chronicler of the life and landscape of his nativ ..." |
 | | Essential Pleasures A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud by Robert Pinsky Hardcover, 508 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06608-1, ISBN: 0-393-06608-8 "A vibrant anthology and accompanying CD that revive a great American tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud. This lively, abundant book is distinguished by its focus on hearing poetry read aloud. Robert Pinsky, beloved for his ability to bring poetry to life as spoken language, has collected poems that sound marvelous in a readerâs actual or imagined voice. Pinsky has organized the book into sections with brief introduct ..." |
 | | I'll Tell What I Saw Select Translations and Illustrations from the Divine Comedy by Michael Mazur, Robert Pinsky, Dante Alighieri, Sarabande Books Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2009 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-77-2, ISBN: 1-932511-77-6 ""Michael Mazur's approach to the Inferno gave me inspiration and guidance in understanding Dante. The monotypes, nourished by the artist's intense engagement with the poetry, are themselves acts of translation, embodying vital principles."—Robert Pinsky, from the preface A unique collection that revisits Dante's classic with translations by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and full-color artwork by internationally renowned artist Mich ..." |
 | | Five American Poets(1st Edition) by Michael Schmidt, Robert Hass, John Matthias, James Mcmichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky, Carcanet Press Ltd, Carcanet Press Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Carcanet ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-070-7, ISBN: 1-84777-070-3 "Rare Book" |
 | | Reeds and Rushes Pitch, Buzz, and Hum by Kathleen Burgess, Robert Pinsky, Roy Bentley, Maggie Smith, Et Al. Burgess Paperback, 111 Pages, Published 2010 by Pudding House Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-58998-698-5, ISBN: 1-58998-698-9 |
 | | The University Center for Human Values Ser. Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry by Robert Pinsky 112 Pages, Published 2009 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2515-8, ISBN: 1-4008-2515-6 "Robert Pinsky. perhaps more psychological and social than liter- ary. The writer, for all her power and eloquence, does not choose to consider the ways that the poem's story may be Robinson's story, a trans- formed account of his own frustration, loneli- ness, dignity and rage. But this insightful, anonymous letter also suggests something like the classical relation of tragic hero and community, or touches on that idea with the wor ..." |
 | | Campbell Lectures Thousands of Broadways : Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town by Robert Pinsky 106 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66946-5, ISBN: 0-226-66946-7 "Act III takes place in the Grover's Corners cemetery, where the dead, including characters we have seen alive at the play's outset, speak as part of their “ weaning from the earth.” And among those dead, too, as in Wilder's screenplay for the Hitchcock film, an angry male character scolds a young woman—he acerbic and she innocent even in her regretful disillusion, though both of them are dead. Emily Gibbs, who has died young in chil ..." |
 | | C International Photo Magazine Issue 6 by Bohnchang Koo, Agnieska Holland, Elena Foster, Robert Pinsky, Ivory Press Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2008 by Ivory Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9554585-4-5, ISBN: 0-9554585-4-4 "This issue of C Photo focuses on the emerging world of photography and art in China. A selection from the two most important collectors of Chinese contemporary art is highlighted in the collector s section. This issue includes an essay in which Agnieszka Holland reflects on the influence of photography in her life. Korean artist Bohnchang Koo contributes with a text about the development of photographic production in his country over th ..." |
 | | C International Photo Magazine by Bohnchang Koo, Robert Pinsky, Agnieska Holland, Elena Foster Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 2008 by Ivory Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9554585-5-2, ISBN: 0-9554585-5-2 "Internat. photo magazine, 6 editado por Ivory press" |
 | | Poetry Speaks Expanded(2nd Edition) Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to Plath (Book w/ Audio CD) by Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby, Rebekah Mosby, Dominique Raccah, Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, Charles Osgood, Dana Gioia Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2007 by Sourcebooks Mediafusion Audiobook ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-1062-4, ISBN: 1-4022-1062-0 ""By the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more." WALL STREET JOURNAL "The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, ..." |
 | | Jewish Encounters 3-Copy Boxed Set Betraying Spinoza, Maimonides, and The Life of David by Sherwin B. Nuland, Robert Pinsky, Rebecca Goldstein Hardcover, Published 2007 by Schocken Box Set ISBN-13: 978-0-8052-4256-0, ISBN: 0-8052-4256-2 "A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT HERITAGE: For the first time in a boxed set, a perfect addition to your family’s library, are 3 of the remarkable titles in the Jewish Encounters series: Betraying Spinoza, Maimonides, and The Life of David. Discover 3,000 years of Jewish life, history and culture with the series that The Washington Post calls “lively and distinguished”.The critically acclaimed Jewish Encounters series brings together wr ..." |