Robert Pinsky’s most recent book of poems, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems
1966-1996 was nominated for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize and awarded the 1996 Ambassador Award
of the English Speaking Union. His The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation was
awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Review Prize in poetry and the Howard Morton Landon
Prize in Translation. Among his many other honors is the Shelley Memorial Award. In 1997, the
Princeton University Press reissued Robert Pinsky’s booklength poem An Explanation of
America, which won the Saxifrage Prize in 1975. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in the fall of 1997,
reissued History of My Heart, chosen the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos
Williams Prize in 1984. Robert Pinsky is the poetry editor of Slate, an on-line magazine
published by Microsoft at www.slate.com, and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Boston
University. He is the present Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry of the United States.
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