Bard's Eye View: U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky - whose own verses sing of the Talmud, tefillin and the Shea - is spreading his joy of poetry to all Americans.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: April 25, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Bard's Eye View: U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky -- whose own verses sing of the Talmud, tefillin and the Shea -- is spreading his joy of poetry to all Americans.

SANDEE BRAWARSKY

Jewish Week Book Critic

Robert Pinsky, the grandson of a Jewish window washer and tailor on one side, and a Jewish bar owner, bootlegger and small-time gangster on the other, was recently named Poet Laureate of the United States. Although he is not the first Jewish Poet Laureate -- Joseph Brodsky served from 1991-1992 -- he is the first whose poetry is often laced with Jewish references.

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