Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky is Poet Laureate of the United States. His most recent books, The Sounds of Poetry and The Handbook of Heartache, were published last fall. (February 1999)

From the Review

February 18, 1999: ABC (poem)

October 22, 1998: Prologue: for a Stage Presentation of the Inferno (poem)

August 14, 1986: Arrests in Poland (letter)

April 28, 1983: Three Poems by Czeslaw Milosz (poem)

Books by Robert Pinsky

Jersey Rain (2000)
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (1998)
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 (1996)
The Want Bone (1990)
Poetry and the World (1988)
History of My Heart (1984)
An Explanation of America (1979)
The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions (1976)
Sadness and Happiness: Poems (1975)