In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other. The author ranges f
Reviews
"The mind at work in The Situation of Poetry 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 "No one can read Pinsky's writing without being provoked to thought."--Helen Vendler, The Nation
