Robert Pinsky, The Life of David September 20, 2005

Robert Pinsky will appear at the launch of Nextbook?s 2005-2006 season at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center. "For the hero to be celebrated requires the artist who imagines the celebration: David the warrior-artist is both." So writes former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky in his new book on King David. Drawing on the biblical chronicle of David as well as on later commentaries, Pinsky crafts both a detailed biography and an ecstatic song to David?warrior, outlaw, poet, king, slayer of Goliath, lover of Bathsheba, successor to Saul, and founder of Jerusalem. Robert Pinsky is the author of six books of poetry and the translation The Inferno of Dante, and currently writes the Poet?s Choice column in the Washington Post.