Robert Pinsky CD

1992/1988. Introduced by Bill Wadsworth and Charles Molesworth.

During his tenure as Poet Laureate, Pinsky emphasized the vocal experience of the art of poetry. Now listeners to this recording can hear Pinsky read his own poems, which are written in, as Molesworth notes in his introduction, "a language that catches and heightens the music of plain words.... [He] uses this music to argue discursively or complain knowingly or celebrate fully."

Pinsky reads from History of My Heart and The Figured Wheel, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Length: 79 min. (2 discs)

Track List

Disc 1: 25 february 1992

1. Introduction by John Hollander (read by Bill Wadsworth)
2. Introduction to "Shirt"
3. Shirt
4. Introduction to "At Pleasure Bay"
5. At Pleasure Bay
6. Introduction to "The City Dark"
7. The City Dark
8. Introduction to "Street Music"
9. Street Music
10. Introduction to "Ginza Samba"
11. Ginza Samba
12. The Hearts
13. Dreamer
14. The Want Bone
15. In Berkeley

Disc 2: 23 october 1984

1. Introduction by Charles Molesworth
2. Introduction to "The Figured Wheel"
3. The Figured Wheel
4. Introduction to "Sonnet"
5. Sonnet
6. Introduction to "The Want Bone"
7. The Want Bone
8. Introduction to "The Street"
9. The Street
10. Introduction to "Song of Reasons"
11. Song of Reasons
12. Introduction to "History of My Heart"
13. I
14. II
15. III
16. IV
17. V