Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky ( born October 20, 1940 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American writer, poet, literary critic and literary critic, who was between 1997 and 2000 U.S. Poet Laureate and so poetic consultant to the Library of Congress.

Life

After attending high school in his hometown of Long Branch, he studied at Rutgers University, where she earned a 1962 Bachelor of Arts ( BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies at Stanford University, where he graduated with a Master of Arts, where he received in 1966, finally, a Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. ), where one of his formative professors while studying particular Yvor Winters.

After the literary critical book Landor 's Poetry (1968 ) wrote Pinsky, who was also editor of poetry magazine The New Republic, even three volumes of poetry, which under the titles Sadness and Happiness ( 1975), The Situation of Poetry (1976 ) and An Explanation of America (1979 ) published.

In 1980 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and then continued his literary activity continued with the poetry History of My Heart ( 1984). After the literary-critical work Poetry and the World ( 1988) he published The Want Bone ( 1990) and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996 ) two other books of poetry. In addition, he was awarded for his collection of poems The Inferno of Dante in 1995 the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.

1997 Pinsky, who is also a member of the Poetry Society of America, U.S. Poet Laureate and was adviser to 2000 the Library of Congress in poetic questions was. Upon completion of this activity, he published with Jersey Rain ( 2000) another volume of poetry. In 2001, he participated as an author on the published by Jonathan Safran Foer collection letters A Convergence Of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell in honor of the 1972 New York artist Joseph Cornell.

In his literary critical essays he studied, among other things with the book The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

For the computer game company Synapse Software Pinsky wrote in 1984, the text adventure Mind Wheel. About this experience with the Interactive fiction genre, he reported in 2010 in the documentary Get Lamp.

Awards

External links and sources

• Works by or about Robert Pinsky in the catalog that German national library
• Robert Pinsky in the Notable Names Database (English)