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"Truly the voice of the Jersey Shore." —Bruce Springsteen “Evocative.”—New York Times Book Review An alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from three-term poet laureate Robert Pinsky. In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black,... Read More about Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near... Read More about The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück). Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of ... Read More about Proverbs of Limbo: Poems

"Truly the voice of the Jersey Shore." —Bruce Springsteen In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an at... Read More about Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

Robert Pinsky, “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), gathers poems that cope with the most extreme human emotions. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get ... Read More about The Book of Poetry for Hard Times: An Anthology

Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street—these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction... Read More about Selected Poems