Poems by Robert Pinsky
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Impossible To Tell
... Especially certain ethnic jokes, which taperDown through the swirling funnel of tongues and gestures ...
Ode To Meaning
... At play in his presence--youA soothing veil of distraction playing over ...
To Television
... Of the dying and comfort of the sick,In a blue glow my father and little sister sat ...
Shirt
... Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers--Like Hart Crane's Bedlamite, "shrill shirt ballooning ...
The Night Game
... Lights. A few years laterOn a blanket in the grass ...
At Pleasure Bay
... Dragonflies and sandflies, frogs in the rushes, two bodies ...
Poem With Refrains
... In the lips that had whispered, the eyes that had lightened ...
Ginza Samba
... His wife's honor, while the other cousin sailsIn the belly of a slaveship to the port ...
Paschal
... O my fellow-patriots loyal to this ...
Poem about People
... All dream it, the dark wind crossing ...
The Hearts
... His chamber window, says the boy, he calls them crystals, ...
Stupid Meditation on Peace
... Of the branch that drives the millstones and dynamos ...
Poem of Disconnected Parts
... ” But later the Americans gave Dost not only paper ...
Essay on Psychiatrists
... ” The question is, Which is the psychiatrist: Pentheus, or Dionysus ...
Creole
... couples Especially needed to invent French, Spanish, German: and I confess&mdash ...
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