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Online Interviews With Robert Pinsky Essay, Research Paper

Interview with J.

M. Spalding for The Cortland Review

J.M. Spalding: Why

poetry, why not a musician or rock star?

Robert Pinsky: If I could

play the horn like Sonny Rollins or Dexter Gordon, it would be tempting indeed to trade

poetry for it. But the thrill I get from certain poems by Yeats or Ben Jonson or Dickinson

or Cavafy—I like rock, but I’ve never gotten a thrill like that from it. In truth, no

art has thrilled me quite as much as certain poems have. And why not try to emulate what

has seemed the greatest to you, for you.

J.M. Spalding: When did

you know that being a poet was something that you wanted to spend your life doing?

Robert Pinsky: Sometime

in my late teens or very early twenties.

J.M. Spalding: How did

you begin as a poet?

Robert Pinsky: One answer

might be "Imitating Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, Frost, Eliot." Another might be

"Reading the dictionary and daydreaming about the sounds of words when I was a

kid." Another might be "Liking entertaining people when playing the saxophone as

a teenager."

J.M. Spalding: Eliot’s The

Waste Land—a poem I’m quite sure you’re familiar with—what do you think of

it?

Robert Pinsky: A great,

personal poem once mistaken for a work about large historical and cultural materials.

J.M. Spalding: Poets are

sometimes liked for their work but despised for their views. Clearly there are those who

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