``Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did .
But among the many writers who have come of age in our fin de siecle , none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky.`` --James Longenbach , The Nation With all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from our three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyr. . . ``Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did