{"id":32212263635,"date":"2012-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/robert-pinsky-comes-home-to-monmouth-with-jazz-accompaniment\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:00:00","slug":"robert-pinsky-comes-home-to-monmouth-with-jazz-accompaniment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/robert-pinsky-comes-home-to-monmouth-with-jazz-accompaniment\/","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT PINSKY COMES HOME TO MONMOUTH, WITH JAZZ ACCOMPANIMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s the Pulitzer-lauded author of more than a dozen books volumes of poetry and essays on art. A Ph.D. in philosophy and a professor at major halls of learning. He produced what\u2019s regarded as the definitive translation of Dante\u2019s Inferno<\/em> \u2014 and his unprecedented three terms as Poet Laureate of the United States resulted in the widely acclaimed Favorite Poem Project.<\/p>\n

If the accomplishments of Robert Pinsky<\/strong> seem so awesome as to render him almost unapproachable, it helps to recall that this is America\u2019s first Laureate to have also chalked up memorable appearances on The Simpsons<\/em> and The Colbert Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Above all else, Robert Pinsky is a native son of the Jersey Shore, born and raised in Long Branch \u2014 a man who\u2019s every bit as apt to rhapsodize about a classic Max\u2019s hot dog as he is about the likes of Greville and Gascoigne.<\/p>\n

When Pinsky takes the stage of the Pollak Theatre<\/strong> at Monmouth University<\/strong> on the night of Friday, March 30, it will represent a homecoming for the celebrated figure who delivered the commencement address on the West Long Branch campus back in 1997 \u2014 and, as opposed to the afternoon reading that he performed at Monmouth exactly three years from the date, this master of the meter will be swinging an altogether different, decidedly nocturnal beat.<\/p>\n

Among his many formidable credits, Robert Pinsky is also an avid jazz buff and amateur musician, who\u2019s been known to relax by jamming with many of the heaviest cats extant. For his 7:30 p.m. performance at the Pollak, this attractor of popstar-sized crowds \u2014 an artist whose working-class origins continue to grace his work with a muscular joy and a never-condescending clarity \u2014 will be accompanied by Ben Allison<\/strong>, a double bassist branded by JazzTimes<\/em> as a\u00a0 \u201cvisionary composer, adventurous improviser, and strong organizational force on the New York City jazz scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laced with improvisational energy and a nod to the Beats of the mid 20th century, the collaboration is a natural for the writer who once aspired to the tenor sax mastery of the late Stan Getz; a writer who told The Paris Review<\/em> “in jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what\u2019s regular and what\u2019s wild. That has always appealed to me.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIn poetry, it\u2019s the sounds of the words and syllables and sentences that is paramount,\u201d says the author whose 2009 volume Thousands of Broadways<\/em> employed numerous images and vivid recollections of his seaside hometown. \u201cPerformance by the poet or an actor is just a hint\u2026the audience\u2019s breath, by which I mean any reader\u2019s voice, is the medium for a poem.\u201d<\/p>\n

For additional information, or to purchase tickets, please contact the Monmouth University Performing Arts Box Office at 732-263-6889, or online at www.monmouth.edu\/arts<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Media contact: Petra Ludwig at 732-263-5507 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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