[New-Poetry] Poetry's Poet

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Brouwer-t.html?bl&ex=1202187600&en=de02619f0e90b2dd&ei=5087%0A

The Civic Poet 

By JOEL BROUWER
Published: February 3, 2008

Robert Pinsky has been writing outstanding poems for more than 30 years — “Gulf Music” is his seventh collection — but you’re more likely to know him for his poetry advocacy than for his own examples of the art. Given Pinsky’s public profile, this is more than understandable; he has served as a highly visible poet laureate of the United States for an unprecedented three terms, founded the acclaimed Favorite Poem Project (and edited or co-edited several resulting anthologies, including “Americans’ Favorite Poems” and “An Invitation to Poetry”), fashioned an eloquent translation of Dante’s “Inferno,” written a regular “Poet’s Choice” column for The Washington Post, moderated a “Meta-Free-Phor-All” on “The Colbert Report” and read one of his poems during a cameo appearance on “The Simpsons.” (No token haiku, either! A real live longish poem!) No other living American poet — no other living American, probably — has done so much to put poetry before the public eye.

















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