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Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

1997-2000 poet laureate
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Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry.  [more]
Robert Pinsky Welcomes Charles Simic: New Poet Laureate
Robert Pinsky
January 28, 2008
01:30:15
Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky and new poet laureate Charles Simic discuss poetry and read their favorite poems.
Robert Pinsky: Poetry and Democracy
Robert Pinsky
February 23, 2006
01:52:50
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.
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Marked by Memories: Remembering Robert Lowell
Gail Mazur
April 19, 2005
01:13:15
Gail Mazur, Frank Bidart, Robert Pinsky and Lloyd Schwartz gather here to remember their mentor, renowned poet and professor Robert Lowell, and to celebrate the publication of his Collected Poems.
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American Values: Patriotism Today
Daniel Schorr
October 29, 2003
01:29:36
Join Caroline Kennedy as she introduces a panel discussion moderated by Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, that explores the ideals upon which our country was founded and how they can best be fulfilled at home and abroad in today's world.
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Emerson and the Examined Life
Robert Pinsky
June 28, 2003
01:55:48
Robert Pinsky, award-winning author and poet, Richard Geldard and David M. Robinson, Emerson scholars, celebrate the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a live reading from famous American essays including Self-Reliance, The Oversoul and The American Scholar.
Image of Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
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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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