Robert Pinsky’s books of poems include Sadness and Happiness, The Figured Wheel and Jersey Rain.
The world is allusive. The mantis alludes to a twig To deflect the starling, the starling is a little stare Alluded to by Shakespeare: Jacques-Pierre,
His name alluding not to spears or beers Or shaking, though the mantis trembles a little, Helpless refugee. Or I imagine she does,
Feeding that fantasy to my heart, an organ Alluded to by the expression ‘courage’ Like...
There are several different things one can be aiming at in a verse translation, leaving aside the genre known as ‘Imitation’, in which poets like Samuel Johnson, Ezra Pound and Robert...
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