Samurai Song
by Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky’s ‘Samurai Song’ shows readers a daunting path to achieve fearlessness, mental peace, and most importantly, freedom from all kinds of suffering.
Robert Pinsky is an important American poet and critic. He was chosen as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1997. He considers poetry’s highest purpose as providing “a unique sensation of coordination between the intelligence, emotions, and the body.”
Robert Pinsky’s ‘Samurai Song’ shows readers a daunting path to achieve fearlessness, mental peace, and most importantly, freedom from all kinds of suffering.
‘Shirt’ by Robert Pinsky was published in 1990 in The Want Bone. The poem consists of sixteen stanzas that are