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Robert Pinsky grew up in Long Branch, N.J., an historic seashore resort. His most recent book of poetry is At the Foundling Hospital. Other works include the best-selling translation The Inferno of Dante and in prose The Life of David, on the Biblical figure. Previous books include his Selected Poems. His autobiography, Jersey Breaks, will appear in October.
His honors include the Korean Manhae Award, the Italian Premio Capri and the Harold Washington Award of the City of Chicago. He has honorary degrees from institutions including Stanford and the University of Michigan
Robert Pinsky’s first two terms as United States Poet Laureate met such enthusiastic national response that he was appointed to an unprecedented third term. As Laureate, Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, in which thousands of American readers, of varying backgrounds, ages, and regions, read their favorite poems. The videos at favoritepoem.org show that poetry has a vigorous presence in American culture.
Pinsky is a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University. He is the only member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters to have appeared on The Colbert Report and The Simpsons.
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Lyric poetry has been defined by the unity and concentration of a solitary voice—such as might be accompanied by the sound of a lyre, a harp small enough to be held in one hand. It is singular, if not solitary. But the vocality of poetry, involving the mind’s energy as it moves toward speech, and toward incantation, also involves the creation of something like—indeed, precisely like —a social presence. The solitude of lyric, almost by the nature of human solitude and the human voice, invokes a social presence.
These
are the desolate, dark weeks
when nature in its barrenness
equals the stupidity of man.