The Best of the Best American Poetry

by Robert Pinsky

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

Published April 1, 2013

About the author

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.
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Reviews

[Gelynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved some poems and thought some unusual or odd. But great collection on the whole. Please not there is an appendix at that back for each author with their thoughts about each poem - I discovered after reading all the poems.