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Robert Pinsky: Poetry and Democracy
February 23, 2006
Robert Pinsky 1997-2000 poet laureate
Tod Machover musician, composer, inventor
David Thorburn moderator

Robert Pinsky discusses his collaboration on an opera, Death and the Powers, with Tod Machover of the Media Lab, his ongoing Favorite Poem Project, his ideas about poetry and democratic culture, and his recent prose book, The Life of David, an account of the biblical poet-king.

MIT Communications Forum Director David Thorburn moderates this wide-ranging conversation with the former poet laureate .

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Image of Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
Author:
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 508 pages
Image of Gulf Music: Poems
Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
Image of The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide
Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 144 pages
Image of The Life of David (Jewish Encounters)
Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Schocken (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
Image of The Situation of Poetry
Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press (1978)
Binding: Paperback, 200 pages
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