Robert Pinsky: Physical

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“That physical tingle, that powerful audible experience(not with poets projecting their work to an audience) but more intimate, less planned than that.”

Robert Pinsky

The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz

“The voice recognizes movements and pause, similarity and difference, recognizes and understands it in a mental and physical process.”

Robert Pinsky

Singing School

Understanding

“It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body, one at a time, in a particular order.”

Robert Pinsky

Poetry and the World, Ecco Press,1988

Nature , Time

“I am very interested in memorization which is the process of incorporating a poem, so, I would say the kind of poetry I write is the kind that emphasises the physical qualities of the words.”

Robert Pinsky

WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season