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Elling, a lounge lizard with a pink pocket handkerchief and slicked-back hair, unquestionably played the role of entertainer and host throughout the night. He makes a point of arranging poems to transcribed musical improvisations, and he did not disappoint with a version of Robert Pinsky??s “The Broken City” set to Wayne Shorter’s haunting “They Speak No Evil.” His voice, a piercing jet of sound, flew over the jagged melodics, weaving them into a blindingly rapid melody, as Malone and Barron easily grounded...
...poems at the Harvard Advocate on Friday, accompanied by New England Conservatory senior Andrew Urbina on alto sax and by NEC professor “Rakalam” Bob Moses on percussion. The sounds of Urbina’s alto sax and Moses’ percussion were interspersed with Pinsky??s poetry. At times, the poet danced a little to the music as he read, and at other times, he remained silent for minutes as Moses and Urbina performed. “It’s all about listening to one another,” Pinsky said...
...countless voices,” and here, each poem expands the significance of otherwise mundane things. In the final third of the book, Pinksy moves further into the abstract, addressing a myriad of ideas as unconnected as Inman Square and allusion. Dominated by simple sentences and minimal form, Pinsky??s poems are austere; their free verse structure mirrors that lack of order and refinement in the world to which Pinsky is reacting. His diction is carefully designed to extract maximum emotion with minimal effort, and allusions to current events permeate the pages. Most poems are composed of short...
They remember when Lisa, posing as an undersized college student, sneaks out on a school night to one of Pinsky??s coffee house poetry readings, where chest-painted frat guys shout “Bashô!” and “Banana tree!” along with the poet’s work “Impossible to Tell...
...Pinsky??who will be doing a similar reading this evening at the Harvard Hillel—also has a more academic following. Many critics consider the Boston University professor as important a modern American poet as William Carlos Williams, and in 1997, the Library of Congress selected Pinsky to be the nation’s ninth poet laureate. His translation of “The Inferno of Dante” also won awards from the L.A. Times and the Academy of American Poets...