Jersey Rain

"[Pinsky] has become Yeats's '60-year-old smiling public man,' almost to the year....But the tasks of the public poet usually suit him well, because his intelligence seems, at bottom, less lyrical than discursive, even didactic. This poetic mode is much less favored now than in the past, but as Pinsky proves, it is still able to give pleasure....The pleasure comes less from the poet's perfection as an artifact than from our sense of the poet's sensitive, inquisitive mind at work."Pinsky, Robert is the author of 'Jersey Rain' with ISBN 9780374527723 and ISBN 0374527725.