{"title":"Robert Pinsky","description":"Robert Pinsky is an award-winning American poet, essayist, and translator. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He served for three terms as the U.S. Poet Laureate, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. His many books include On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy (Princeton), the memoir Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, and the poetry collections Proverbs of Limbo, At the Foundling Hospital, and Selected Poems. His bestselling translation of Dante's Inferno won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Among his other awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the PEN\/Voelcker Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He is distinguished professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Boston University.","products":[{"product_id":"robert-pinsky-the-first-two-books-of-poems-paperback","title":"Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable first two books of poetry by the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate--now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky's first two collections--\u003ci\u003eSadness And Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Explanation of America\u003c\/i\u003e--announced the arrival of a major new voice in American poetry. Now, these acclaimed books are presented together in a single volume featuring a new preface by the author, introducing a new generation of readers to the groundbreaking early work of a beloved poet. \u003ci\u003eSadness And Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e explores everyday subjects such as the streets and oceanfront of Pinsky's hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, while the long title poem of \u003ci\u003eAn Explanation of America\u003c\/i\u003e examines personal and national myths as it transports readers across the country.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376716710111,"sku":"9780691278230","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/g8wlzYxMU29780691278230.webp?v=1789221771"},{"product_id":"on-poetry-culture-and-democracy-paperback","title":"On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.\"--Robert Lowel\u003c\/b\u003el \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate--now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium--with poems brought to life by one person at a time--gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the former poet laureate--\u003ci\u003eThe Situation of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDemocracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376717922527,"sku":"9780691278254","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iBCPdaaD2v9780691278254.webp?v=1789221774"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-paperback-18","title":"Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntense 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, \u003ci\u003eSadness and Happiness \u003c\/i\u003e(1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: \"I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue \u003ci\u003eAn Explanation of America\u003c\/i\u003e; the transformed autobiography of \u003ci\u003eHistory of My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e; the bestselling translation \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno of Dante\u003c\/i\u003e; and, most recently, the savage, inventive \u003ci\u003eGulf Music\u003c\/i\u003e. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378336006367,"sku":"9780374533168","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hibxW8SLe29780374533168.webp?v=1789254431"},{"product_id":"proverbs-of-limbo-poems-paperback","title":"Proverbs of Limbo: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer \"rarely equalled\" (Louise Glück). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in \u003ci\u003eProverbs of Limbo\u003c\/i\u003e, his first new book of poetry in eight years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this collection, the poet mines and maps limbal regions: those spaces between differences that can be at once creative and oppressive, enlightening and dark, exciting and fatal. For Pinsky, they include the familiar borders between demographic categories, as well as limbal realities that are more personal--clashing ways of understanding, personal history and world history, health and illness, freedom and compulsion, intimacy and community, personality and culture--all the countless variations of in-between. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe title \u003ci\u003eProverbs of Limbo\u003c\/i\u003e tips its hat, at an angle, to the great poet William Blake's \u003ci\u003eProverbs of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e. 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