Monthly Archives: April 2010

Prof. Pinsky and other laureates and heretics

In his new book, Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry,Robert Archambeau “examines the influence of the poet and critic Yvor Winters on his final generation of graduate students at Stanford in the early 1960s: Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, James McMichael, John Matthias, and John Peck. Archambeau divides the poets into two groups, laureates […]