Robert Pinsky, who served as Poet Laureate of the United States, 1997-2000, is the author of many books, including:Jersey Rain,Americans' Favorite Poems,Poems to Read,The Sounds of Poetry,The Handbook of Heartbreak,The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, among others, and three works published by Princeton:An Explanation of America;The Situation of Poetry; andSadness and Happiness. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston University. This book emerged from the Tanner Lectures that he delivered at Princeton's University Center for Human Values in 2001. |
