“All the mysteries of consciousness flower in the body.”
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
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 poetry. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, Dante Alighieri's Inferno and The Separate Notebooks by Czesław Miłosz. He teaches at Boston University.
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“All the mysteries of consciousness flower in the body.”
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
Sleigh, Tom. "Robert Pinsky", ‘’BOMB Magazine’’ Summer, 1998. .
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The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
Interview at Skidmore College Aug 1995,published 'Paris Review' no 144 Fall 1997
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
Poetry and the World, Ecco Press,1988
“Every word is an abstraction or category, not a particular.”
The Situation of Poetry - Contemporary Poetry and its Traditions Princeton University Press 1976
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“No aspect of a poem is more singular, more unique, than its rhythm.”
'The Sounds of Poetry' Farrar,Strauss & Giroux 1998
The Sounds of Poetry 1998
Poetry and the World, Ecco Press,1988
WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season
“Part of making a poem is a process of day- dreaming.”
Singing School -Learning to Write (and read) Poetry W W Norton, New York 2013
Singing School
WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season
What is a good book about short line in ballad metre? The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz