Pinsky, Robert

Pinsky, Robert
born Oct. 20, 1940, Long Branch, N.J., U.S.

American poet and critic.

Pinsky was poetry editor of The New Republic from 1979 to 1986. His own poems, many of which are to be found in The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems (1996), often explore the meaning of ordinary acts. He also did a notable verse translation of Dante's Inferno (1994). Pinsky was poet laureate consultant from 1997 to 2000.

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▪ American poet and critic
born Oct. 20, 1940, Long Branch, N.J., U.S.

      American poet and critic whose poems searched for the significance underlying everyday acts. He was the first poet laureate consultant in poetry to be appointed for three consecutive one-year terms, beginning in 1997.

      A graduate of Rutgers (B.A., 1962) and Stanford (Ph.D., 1966) universities, Pinsky taught at Wellesley College, the University of California at Berkeley, and Boston University.

      The title poem of Pinsky's first collection, Sadness and Happiness (1975), comments on the poet's own life. His long poem An Explanation of America (1979) probes personal and national myths. Vivid imagery characterizes his other collections, which include History of My Heart (1984), The Want Bone (1990), The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems (1996), Jersey Rain (2000), and Gulf Music (2007). Landor's Poetry (1968), The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Tradition (1976), Poetry and the World (1988), The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (1998), and Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry (2002) are among his critical writings. The Life of David (2005) is a study of the biblical figure. He was poetry editor of The New Republic (New Republic, The) from 1979 to 1986 and from 1997 of Slate, an online magazine. Pinsky cotranslated poems by Czesław Miłosz (Miłosz, Czesław) that were published in The Separate Notebooks (1984). His verse translation of Dante's Inferno (1994) is notable for its gracefulness and its faithfulness to the original terza rima form. In addition to editing several poetry anthologies, Pinsky devised and published an interactive quest romance called Mindwheel to be played on computers. In 1997 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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