Robert Pinsky

Poems to Read: a New Favorite Poem Project Anthology Robert Pinsky

Marc Notes: Incl. bibl. ref. and index; 200 poems accompanied by comments from the editors & participants in the Favorite Poem Project, which was founded by Pinsky during his tenure as Poet Laureate of the United StatesBrief Description: A unique anthology by the editors of the bestseller "Americans' Favorite Poems."Publisher Marketing: "Poems to Read" is a welcoming avenue into poetry for readers new to poetry, including high school and college students. It is also meant to be a fresh, valuable collection for readers already devoted to the art. This anthology concentrates on the actual pleasures of reading poems: hearing the poem in your voice, bringing it to other people, musing about it, taking excitement or comfort from it, wandering with it or as in the Keats letter quoted in the Introduction having it as a starting post. Many of these 200 poems are accompanied by comments from readers of various ages, regions, and backgrounds who participated in the Favorite Poem Project. Included are poems by John Donne, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Louise Gluck, to name a few. The editors offer their own comments on some of the poems, which are arranged in thematic chapters. Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2002 pg. 1670 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/01/2002 pg. 85 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/15/2002 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2002 pg. 84 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 571 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 741 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 884 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 02/25/2002 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2003 pg. 47 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 417 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 523 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) PW Notes and Reprints 02/25/2002 pg. 59 (EAN 9780393010749, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Pinsky, Robert Robert Pinsky was born on October 20, 1940 in Long Branch, New Jersey. He received a B. A. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and earned both an M. A. and Ph. D. in Philosophy from Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in creative writing, and studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters . He is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Gulf Music: Poems; Jersey Rain (2000); The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996), which received the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize nominee; The Want Bone (1990); History of My Heart (1984); An Explanation of America (1980); and Sadness and Happiness (1975). He is also the author of several prose titles, including The Life of David; Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry (2002); The Sounds of Poetry (1998), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Poetry and the World (1988); and The Situation of Poetry (1977). In 1985 he also released a computerized novel, Mindwheel. Pinsky has published two acclaimed works of traslation: The Inferno of Dante (1994), which was a Book-of-the-Month-Club Editor's Choice, and received both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award ; and The Separate Notebooks by Czeslaw Milosz (with Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass ). About his work, the poet Louise Gluck has said, "Robert Pinsky has what I think Shakespeare must have had: dexterity combined with worldliness, the magician's dazzling quickness fused with subtle intelligence, a taste for tasks and assignments to which he devises ingenious solutions."From 1997 to 2000, he served as the United States Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. During that time, he founded the Favorite Poem Project, a program dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry's role in Americans' lives. In 1999, he co-edited Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology with Maggie Dietz. Other anthologies he has edited include An Invitation to Poetry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004); Poems to Read (2002); and Handbook of Heartbreak (1998). His honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, both the William Carlos Williams Award and the Shelley Memorial prize from the Poetry Society of America, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He is currently poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate . Pinsky has taught at both Wellesley College and the University of California, Berkeley, and currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Contributor Bio:  Dietz, Maggie Maggie Dietz is the Favorite Poem Project's director. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.