Creator Bio
Robert Pinsky
b. 1940
Born and raised in New Jersey, Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was the U.S. poet laureate from 1997 to 2000. His translations include Dante’s Inferno and the poetry of Czesław Miłosz. Among Pinsky’s honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Pinsky is a professor of English at Boston University.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Shirt
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,
The nearly invisible stitches along the collar
Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians
Gossiping over tea and noodles on their break
Or talking…