Princeton University Press
congratulates Robert Pinsky
on his selection as
Poet Laureate of the
United States
Princeton University Press published
Robert Pinsky's first books and we are
pleased that they remain available in
bookstores throughout the country.
To view samples from each book below,
please visit our website:
pup.princeton.edu.
Sadness And Happiness
"Remarkable ... What [these poems) are attempting is
important: nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole
domain of mute and familiar experience."
-Hugh Kenner,
The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Paper $9.95 ISBN 0-691-01322-5
An Explanation of America
"[An)
ambitious and immensely likable long poem ... a poem
which-a rare thing-seems to combine intimacy and authority."
-David Kalstone.
The New York Times Book Review
Winner ofthe Oscar Blumenthal Prize from
Poetry
Paper $9.95 ISBN 0-691-01360-8
The Situation of Poetry
Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions
"The mind at work in
The Situation ofPoetry
is lively, fresh.
and critical without being obsessed by the rigor of criticism.
[Pinsky's) comments are brief, vivid, distinct ... and his taste is
excellent."-Denis Donoghue.
The New York Times Book Review
