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
Books
At the Foundling Hospital
Poems
2016
The Handbook of Heartbreak
101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow
1998
Sadness and Happiness
1975
Jersey Breaks
Becoming an American Poet
2022
The Life of David
2005
An Explanation of America
1979
Poetry And The World
1988
First Things to Hand
Poems
2006
The Want Bone
1990
The Situation of Poetry
Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions
1976
Selected Poems
2011
The Figured Wheel
New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
1996
History of My Heart
Poems
1984
What's Your Exit?
A Literary Detour Through New Jersey
2010
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall
Poems at the Extremes of Feeling
2019
The Sounds of Poetry
A Brief Guide
1998
Gulf Music
Poems
2007
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
2002
Jersey Rain
2000
Thousands of Broadways
Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town
2009
Proverbs of Limbo
Poems
2024
Jewish Encounters
Betraying Spinoza, Maimonides, and the Life of David
2007
