http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/poetschoice?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicePoet's Choiceen-us1514020http://www.washingtonpost.comhttp://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gifhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7883-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7883-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMTPoems: New and Selected has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention: She sees and considers with intensity. Her poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice.]]> Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55012-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55012-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35779-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35779-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMTSports and (paradoxically) Obituaries are consistently more about life than death. On the bus, some traditionalist may be reading a cozy murder mystery. Other people are deep in a legal or technological thriller, its plot driven by actual or threatened death.]]> Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17322-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17322-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64542-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64542-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMTMontale in English, an anthology of translations by many hands. Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) has exerted a continuing, large influence on poetry in English. This book, edited by Harry Thomas, presents the range and depth of the great Italian modernist's attraction for those who write in English.]]> Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45487-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45487-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25570-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25570-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5629-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5629-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51774-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51774-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMTGilgamesh.]]> Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33504-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33504-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15603-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15603-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62085-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62085-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMTFielder's Choice, is published by the Canadian press Signal Editions. Partridge first:]]> Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37290-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37290-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT Edward Hirschhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16404-2003Nov26.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16404-2003Nov26.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A232-2003Nov20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A232-2003Nov20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38724-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38724-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41307-2003Oct30.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41307-2003Oct30.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35984-2003Oct16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35984-2003Oct16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6258-2003Oct9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6258-2003Oct9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMTvillanella has its etymological origin in villano, an Italian word for "peasant," and in villa, the Latin word for "farm" or "country house."]]>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37410-2003Oct2.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoicehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37410-2003Oct2.html?nav=rss_style/columns/poetschoiceSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:23 GMT