Robert Pinsky

In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighbourhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high school C student, whose obsession with the rhythms and...

In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighbourhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high school C student, whose obsession with the rhythms and...

Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic. — Robert Lowell For Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium, with poems brought to life by one person at a time, gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the...

Award-winning poet Robert Pinsky's first two collections, Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America, announced the arrival of a major new voice in American poetry. Now, these acclaimed books are presented together in a single volume featuring a new preface by the author, introducing a new generation of readers to the groundbreaking early work of a beloved poet. Sadness...