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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is the award-winning author of over twenty volumes of poetry. He served as United States poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. He teaches at Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Books by Robert Pinsky
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Robert Pinsky
Paperback, 2014
“Magnificent . . . poems to inspire [with] brief and brilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.”—Alan Cheuse, NPRSinging School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Robert Pinsky
Hardback, 2013
A bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past.Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
Robert Pinsky
Hardback, 2009
A vibrant anthology and accompanying CD that revive a great American tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud.Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Robert Pinsky
E Book, 2013
“Magnificent . . . poems to inspire [with] brief and brilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.”—Alan Cheuse, NPRThe Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling
Robert Pinsky
E Book, 2019
Robert Pinsky, “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), gathers poems that cope with the most extreme human emotions.The Book of Poetry for Hard Times: An Anthology
Robert Pinsky
Paperback, 2021
Robert Pinsky, “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), gathers poems that cope with the most extreme human emotions.Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
Robert Pinsky
Hardback, 2022
An alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (The New York Times)Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
Robert Pinsky
E Book
An alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (The New York Times)Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
Robert Pinsky
Paperback, 2024
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