Happy Birthday Robert Pinsky… 20 Friday Oct 2017 Posted by Ronald E. Shields in poems ≈ 11 Comments https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/pinsky/threepoems.htm Share this:FacebookTwitterPrintEmailMorePinterestLinkedInRedditTumblrPocketLike Loading...
Poetry on the run 
speaking of poet laureates…going to a reading that will include the poet laureate for Washington State. So I’m pretty psyched.
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I guess I should say it’s my birthday too. 🙂
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Well happy birthday Eliot!
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Thank you.
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Loved the one that showed up in my inbox this morning:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57102/antique-56d23a4272507?utm_source=Poetry+Foundation&utm_campaign=0901e1cb88-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ff7136981c-0901e1cb88-185581329
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Quite splendid
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yeah. His poems can be rather hit or miss for me but that one blew me away. So much for the mind to run off with.
His non-fiction books are always hits for me. They have rather deeply shaped how I think of poetry and the writing of poems.
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Er–I should say his ‘about poetry’ books rather than his collections of poems, not exactly ‘non-fiction’ although I guess poetic theory books do fall into that category, the term ‘non-fiction’ is a little too broad and non-specific.
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i’ll have to check the non-fiction out…
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“Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry” and “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide” are both very thought provoking.
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Thanks.
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