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Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, including The Inferno of Dante Alighieri and The Separate Notebooks by Czesław Miłosz. He teaches at Boston University and is the poetry editor at Slate. wikipedia
Poems
2016
101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow
1998
1975
Becoming an American Poet
2022
2005
1979
1988
Poems
2006
An Anthology
2021
1990
Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions
1976
2011
New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
1996
Poems
1984
A Literary Detour Through New Jersey
2010
Poems at the Extremes of Feeling
2019
A Brief Guide
1998
Poems
2007
2002
2000
Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town
2009
Poems
2024
Betraying Spinoza, Maimonides, and the Life of David
2007