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1	The Inferno of Dante more books like this by Robert Pinsky (Translator), John Cleese (Read by) add to wishlist Robert Pinsky's acclaimed verse translation of the "Inferno" shows the contemporary reader why Dante is considered a poet of great power, intensity, and vision. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition more books like this by Dante Alighieri, Michael Mazur (Illustrator), Robert Pinsky (Translator) add to wishlist Dante's masterpiece of medieval literature contains many levels of meaning, including the literal (Dante's trip through hell, purgatory, and paradise); the allegorical (the progression of the soul toward goodness); and the moral (what it takes to lead a good life). Dante's great love, Beatrice, is seen in the poem as the personification of love ... see all copies from $4.45! new only from $5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist Pinsky writes about poetry as an exclusively kinetic experience, with hints about how to read poetry, above all, for the sound of its words. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology more books like this by Robert Pinsky (Editor), Maggie Dietz (Editor) add to wishlist A treasury of poems to read aloud, ponder and memorize, poems to be celebrated as part of the American cultural inheritance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| SVS
5	Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud more books like this by Robert Pinsky (Editor) add to wishlist A vibrant anthology and accompanying CD that revive a great American tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud. see all copies from $14.93! new only from $18.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know about Oxycontin and Other Prescription Drugs more books like this by Dr. Drew Pinsky, M.D., Robert Meyers, William White add to wishlist Americans, it seems, have a history of self-medicating for pain. The high profile and increasingly widespread cases of prescription pain medication abuse that we're seeing today serve as the latest chapter in America's long-standing love/hate relationship with painkilling drugs. In this fascinating, informative, and timely book, Dr. Drew Pinsky ... see all copies from $4.05! new only from $8.48! \| SVS
7	Jersey Rain: Poems more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist Cathartic, refreshing new work by the American favorite"Tiptoe on the globe. Gazing""nowhere in particular, the slender""Thunderer surrounded by thunder, ""Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled "Spirit""Of Communication"---unhistorical, ""Pure, the merciless messenger."--from "A Phonebook Cover Hermes of the Nineteen-forties"Innovative, engaging poems ... see all copies from $2.40! new only from $4.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Life of David more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist Pinsky, a former poet laureate of the United States, draws on the biblical chronicle of David's life as well as later commentaries and the Psalms to weave the many strands of David's story into this narrative. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry more books like this by Dave Kapell, Sally Steenland, Robert Pinsky (Introduction by) add to wishlist The poems in this pack are published in a spiral-bound anthology which has a magnetic-ready back cover, and is packaged with a vinyl pouch containing 100 word tiles, enabling the reader to write poems on any magnetic surface (such as a refrigerator door) at any time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.55! \| first editions \| SVS
10	An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist A multimedia collection of poems introduced by American readers, featuring a DVD including a video introduction by Robert Pinsky. see all copies from $2.18! new only from $11.25! \| SVS
11	William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems more books like this by William Carlos Williams, Robert Pinsky (Editor) add to wishlist "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 great historic flowerings." From the hard-edged experiments of Spring and All to the fluent lyricism of "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," Williams pursued an independent and often unappreciated ... see all copies from $6.22! new only from $6.90! \| SVS
12 view cover	Gulf Music more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist The gulf in the title of Pinsky's seventh collection is both the large southern body of water that has been the site of so much weather-related misery, and the unavoidable distances between an author's thoughts and feelings and his expression. Poems from the first section frequently butt up against subjects too large for speech, and break down ... see all copies from $2.34! new only from $3.59! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Figured Wheel more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist This work includes 16 new poems as well as a sampling from Pinsky's other books; the poems include such diverse subjects as a baseball game, the poet's daughter, and psychiatrists. Winner of "The Nation" magazine's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1997. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $6.42! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist This work includes 16 new poems as well as a sampling from Pinsky's other books; the poems include such diverse subjects as a baseball game, the poet's daughter, and psychiatrists. Winner of "The Nation" magazine's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1997. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.74! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow more books like this by Robert Pinsky (Compiled by) add to wishlist Collected by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, this unique volume brings together works from poets jilted in the sixteenth century to those struggling with heartache today -- including William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Louise Gluck. The Handbook of Heartbreak is a must for ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	The Want Bone more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist Pinsky navigates the overlapping forces of myth and history in this 1990 collection. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Carved Memories more books like this by Professor Gershon David Hundert (Contributions by), David Noevich Goberman, Robert Pinsky (Introduction by) add to wishlist In 1786, Catherine the Great of Russia ordered all Jews to move to an area in Russia and Poland known as "Pale of Settlement." The carved tombstones of the Pale are the subject of this collection of 125 duotone photographs. see all copies from $9.96! new only from $29.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Genetic Disorders of Human Sexual Development more books like this by Leonard Pinsky, Robert P Erickson, R Neil Schimke add to wishlist Authoritative clinical reference on genetic sexual disorders, a field that has been transformed in many areas by molecular genetics. see all copies from $9.86! new only from $9.86! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrongheaded as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
21	An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology more books like this by Maggie Dietz (Editor), Robert Pinsky (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $55.16!
22 view cover	History of My Heart: Poems more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist "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 of the past decade." It is Pinsky's third volume of poems--and an ideal introduction to the work of a vital and original contemporary American poet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Poetry and the World more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist A collection of sharp, entertaining, and informative essays by poet Robert Pinsky, POETRY AND THE WORLD is a passionate inquiry into poetry's place in the modern world. Combining the arts of criticism and autobiography, Pinsky writes about poets as diverse as Walt VVhitman and Philip Freneau, Marianne Moore and Frank O'Hara, about a visit to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions more books like this by Robert Pinksky, Robert Pinsky add to wishlist "A first-rate piece of work. I can't imagine anyone capable of reading this book and not learning from it."--Hugh Kenner see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.34! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Jersey Rain more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist In his first collection of new poems after serving as Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky continues his highly-acclaimed work, blending classical references and Renaissance versification with pop-culture references and serious thinking about the trivialities of everyday life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions

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