UA Poetry Center
Robert Pinsky reads from his fourth book, The Want Bone (1990), alongside more recent poems that would appear in his fifth collection, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 (1996). Many of the poems he reads consider the complex nature of ancestry, history, and the present they create.
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Pinsky, Robert. The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
Pinsky, Robert. The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
Differs slightly from published version.
Pinsky, Robert. The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
Differs slightly from published version.
Pinsky, Robert. The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
Pinsky, Robert. The Want Bone. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.
Differs slightly from published version.
Pinsky, Robert. The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
Audio pitch is distorted beginning at 1:10.
Pinsky, Robert. The Want Bone. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.
Pinsky, Robert. The Want Bone. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.
Pinsky, Robert. The Want Bone. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.
Differs slightly from published version.
Pinsky, Robert. History of My Heart. New York: Ecco, 1984.
Recordings skips forward at 5:29.
Pinsky, Robert. The Want Bone. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.
Pinsky, Robert. The Want Bone. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.
Pinsky, Robert. The Want Bone. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.
