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It wasn't my favorite collection by Pinsky. Sure, Pinsky has experiences and is well-read, but, that doesn't make him 'too smart', not for anyone. My thoughts all run together.This a collection of about four dozen short poems published in 2007, which seem to have been written since his last published collection in 1998. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Welcome back. I will not go into the myriad problems and disconnections with modern poetry—the way it lingers in the academic ivory tower while the poetry of pop (or more hopefully, underground) music resonates with the masses, but it always bears consideration. Even his confessions exist in history--which sets him apart.
(as if I have an adoring public just salivating for my opinions)Funny how some reviewers here felt Pinsky was 'too smart' for them. It's still a solid three stars, because I like some of the lines, but I wish he'd pull out the stops sometimes, get messier, be more (yes, I'm going to say it) Jewy and less goy. The young adult genre continues to lead literature in embracing new voices, championing all types of diversity, and, well, just really app...I cannot uniformly appreciate all of Pinsky’s poems, but some of them are very powerful and amply demonstrate his prowess as our former poet laureate. Gulf Music intertwines myth with modern day in the same poems and includes scatting of music notes that represent some sort of music I’m either not familiar with or that he has a difficult time translating in a soundless book. 0374167494 The final poem, a translation "From the Last Canto of Paradise," is a burst of beauty from a poet who always enjoys proving that he's still got the goods.Couldn't really get into it...maybe Pinsky's just not for me. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and earned both an M.A.
Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
This isn't a good one. Pinsky set a goal of recording one hundred people, but he was inundated with letters and e-mails from all over the nation, and those participating represented all ages, all walks of life, and all levels of education. Many … The back, the yoke, the yardage.
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Sure, Pinsky has experiences and is well-read, but, that doesn't make him 'too smart', not for anyone. When I first read the poem in _Poetry_ the words "Culture the lock, culture the key" opened up a path for my own work, the fruits of which remain to be seen. The titular work, for example, was a poem that while it stands as an extI had been meaning to read some amount of Pinsky (instead of just a poem here and there) for a while now, but I don't think I should have started with this one.
Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey to Jewish parents, Sylvia (née Eisenberg) and Milford Simon Pinsky, an optician. “Pinsky’s interest in poetry that mixed contemporary speech with wide-ranging subject matter led him in 1994 to publish a new translation of Dante’s Despite the fact that about fifty English-language translations of the Pinsky was named poet laureate in 1997 and served until 2000. It relies too much on grammatical and poetic tools to be appreciated by anyone who does not share Pinsky's background of study. A New Anthology edited by Robert Pinsky: The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling Robert Pinsky’s new anthology, The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling (W. W. Norton & Company) explores poetry at its extremes ~ despair, grief, love and rage, manic laughter.
Robert Pinsky: Poems Questions and Answers. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it skips around so widely, even within individual poems, that I was exhausted by the time I finished. He'll create these elaborate pastiche mosaics, all interlocking and fascinating (if a bit too tidy)—and then suddenly they get interrupted by his voice/tone, which really just does not do it for me. It's scattered. He received a BA from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and earned both an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in creative writing, and studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters.. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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