ROBERT PINSKY is an award-winning American poet, essayist, and translator. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He served three terms as the U.S. poet laureate, also founding the Favorite Poem Project. His many books include The First Two Books of Poems (Princeton University Press); On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy (Princeton University Press); the memoir Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet; and the poetry collections Proverbs of Limbo: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); At the Foundling Hospital: Poems; and Selected Poems. His bestselling translation of Dante’s Inferno won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Among his other awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the PEN/Voelcker Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He is distinguished professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Boston University.
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