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 ...
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.
An anthology of 200 poems on the pleasures of reading poetry - hearing the poem in your voice, bringing it to others, musing about it, or taking excitement and comfort from it. It includes poems by John Donne, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Louise Gluck.
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
"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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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