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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Strong, accessible work
Want to check out some poetry that won't blind you with its self-importance? Give Pinksy a whirl. He wasn't poet laureate for nothing, and this volume shows why: his work is everyday-ish, regular images told in regular language, but stacked in such a way that the power of the images play movies in your head with every turn of the page. The book gets off to a ripping...
Published on May 19, 2002 by Scott Woods
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
we must feel bad that this was our Poet Laureate
Pinsky is in love with being a poet, but his poems don't mean anything to the rest of us. This book is a perfect example of this. We are supposed to admire him, not read him, and I find it a shame that this lousy work got him a Luareateship.
Published on August 18, 2003 by Master of
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Strong, accessible work,
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This review is from: History of My Heart: Poems (Paperback)
Want to check out some poetry that won't blind you with its self-importance? Give Pinksy a whirl. He wasn't poet laureate for nothing, and this volume shows why: his work is everyday-ish, regular images told in regular language, but stacked in such a way that the power of the images play movies in your head with every turn of the page. The book gets off to a ripping start and calms down from there, but is no less compelling. Like really good, quiet fireplace conversation.
4.0 out of 5 stars
skillful,
By thespider (Manila) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of My Heart: Poems (Paperback)
Reading this is reading a master at work. Pinsky wields so much skill it's ridiculous. Reading the poems here is like listening to an intelligent, old man sitting in a chair somewhere in a field, giving his thoughts free rein, following them where they land. In my opinion, the poem "The Figured Wheel" is a lyrical, breath-taking masterpiece.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
we must feel bad that this was our Poet Laureate,
By Master of (sitting here) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of My Heart: Poems (Paperback)
Pinsky is in love with being a poet, but his poems don't mean anything to the rest of us. This book is a perfect example of this. We are supposed to admire him, not read him, and I find it a shame that this lousy work got him a Luareateship.
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History of My Heart: Poems by Robert Pinsky (Paperback - Feb. 1998)
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