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Robert Pinsky

A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky was born and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University and has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Works

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Gulf Music
Poems

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Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus. Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces. Henry formed a group named Professor...
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Jersey Rain
Poems

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Cathartic, refreshing new work by the American favorite Tiptoe on the globe. Gazing nowhere in particular, the slender Thunderer surrounded by...
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The Sounds of Poetry
A Brief Guide

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The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The...
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History of My Heart
Poems

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History of My Heart, winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize, first appeared in 1984. In The New Republic, J.D. McClatchy called it "one of the best books...
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The Figured Wheel
New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996

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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...

Audio

Robert Pinsky Reads 'At the Fishhouses'

Listen to Robert Pinsky read Elizabeth Bishop's 'At the Fishhouses.'

Duration: 04:29
'The Want Bone' and 'Shirt'

Listen to Robert Pinsky read his poems 'The Want Bone' and 'Shirt' at the Farrar, Straus and Giroux anniversary party in in 1996.

Duration: 05:18
Robert Pinsky
Juliet van Otteren

Bestseller

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The Sounds of Poetry
A Brief Guide

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The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The...

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