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Robert Pinsky Information
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Robert Pinsky (born October 20 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 – 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of...


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TriQuarterly
A conversation with Robert Pinsky. (poet) (Interview)
12/22/1994: 7,579 words, approx. 25 pages
Robert Pinsky is an influential American poet, author and translator. He has translated numerous poems in different languages and has collaborated with other poets on the analysis, translation and criticism of non-American works. During an open forum with students from Davidson College in North...
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University Wire
Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to speak at U. Washington graduation
06/02/2000: 383 words, approx. 1 pages
University Wire 06-02-2000 (The Daily) (U-WIRE) SEATTLE -- Like war, graduation requires planning. It takes some doing to safely herd thousands of people into the University of Washington's Husky Stadium to cheer on the several thousand graduates encamped for the three-hour vigil on the...
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The New York Observer
Well-Tailored Piecework Stitches Up a 1911 Tragedy
7/2/2006: 918 words, approx. 3 pages
Katharine Weber puts her stories together like piecework, like the work done by the two sisters in Triangle, one a survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire of 1911, the other killed by it (along with 145 others). Ms. Weber stitches together an interview, an...
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The New York Observer
Well-Tailored Piecework Stitches Up a 1911 Tragedy
7/2/2006: 919 words, approx. 3 pages
Katharine Weber puts her stories together like piecework, like the work done by the two sisters in Triangle, one a survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire of 1911, the other killed by it (along with 145 others). Ms. Weber stitches together an interview, an...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Robert Pinsky with Harry Thomas, et al.
7,233 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following interview, which was conducted originally on February 2, 1993 in Thomas's classroom at Davidson College, Pinsky discusses the art of translation, the cultural ways Judaism affected him personally, the influence of Eastern philosophies in his poems, and the transformative, historical aspects of his poetics.
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Interview by Triquarterly with Robert Pinsky
7,180 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following interview conducted by several people, Pinsky discusses the problems of translating poetry, the influence of Judaism and Eastern philosophy on his writing, and his poetic philosophy.
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Critical Essay by James Longenbach
6,121 words, approx. 20 pages
In the essay below, Longenbach traces Pinsky's artistic development in terms of the poet's "deep awareness—sometimes wariness, sometimes worship"—of historical, linguistic, and literary forces at work in his art.
 


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