At the Foundling Hospital

Name: At the Foundling Hospital
ISBN: 9780374537814

by Robert Pinsky

National Book · 2016 · Shortlist

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Farrar, Straus and GirouxSeptember 13, 2016PoetryISBN 9780374537814

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry	2016	Shortlist

About This Book

Robert Pinsky's collection meditates on origins, orphanhood, and the bonds of culture, ranging from London's foundling hospital to American jazz. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award.

About the Author

Robert PinskyAmerican

Robert Pinsky (born 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator best known for his poetry collections such as Sadness and Happiness (1975), The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 (1996), and At the Foundling Hospital (2016), as well as his translation of Dante's Inferno. Congress. He served three consecutive terms as the U.S. Read more →