The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
A Literature, Poetry book. Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon...
The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience." Both the transformation of the familiar and the uttering of what has been hitherto mute or implicit in our culture continue to be central to Pinsky's art. New poems like "Avenue" and "The City Elegies" envision the urban landscape's mysterious epitome of human pain and imagination, forces that recur in "Ginza Samba," an astonishing history of the saxophone, and "Impossible to Tell," a jazz-like work that intertwines elegy with both the Japanese custom of linking-poems and the American tradition of ethnic jokes. A final section of translations includes Pinsky's renderings of poems by Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Celan, and others, as well as the last canto of his award-winning version of the Inferno.
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Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or even about possibly indifferent people, people who are absent or perhaps dead, or unborn; the suicide of psychiatrists coming from too much attention, in most intimate contact, concentrated upon the feelings of people toward whom one may feel indifferent, people who are certain, sooner or later, to die... Robert Pinsky, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
I chose Pinskys The Volume (109-110) to demonstrate his craftsmanship as a poet. What I found the most pleasure in is how he contrasts the haunting ocean with the merriment on shore. As Prof. Montesonti points out, Pinky seeks the truth and explores subject matter with such breath, width, and depth. In The Volume, he sees beyond a typical... I have come to the inevitable conclusion that I am not a fan of Pinsky's poetry. This is not to say that he is a bad poet. I can appreciate the technique and such of his works. But on a purely subjective level, I feel nothing when I read his works and I decided not only to not finish this collection but to just admit that I don't want... There is nothing wrong with Robert Pinskys poems. Which was the worst thing I could think to say about a collected book of poetry spanning three decades. Three decades of getting nothing wrong. Every thought and emotion, even the naughty ones, are as carefully vetted as political candidates for unseemly stains and wrong-thinking. These...
