FTP, name this author who in 1997 became Poet Laureate of the United States and who founded the "Favorite Poem Project," which asks average Americans like Paul Litvak to recite poems they love.
His first book of poetry opened with a description of "jaunty crop-haired graying / Women in grocery stores," and in addition to "Poem About People" featured such poems as "Discretions of Alcibiades" and the long "Essay on Psychiatrists."  His second book of poetry featured sections on the "many fragments," "great emptiness," and "everlasting possibility" of this country, and purported to offer an "explanation of America."  In addition to writing a book on the poetry of Walter Savage Landor, his volumes include History of My Heart and The Want Bone, as well as a notable translation of Dante's Inferno.  FTP, name this author who in 1997 became Poet Laureate of the United States and who founded the "Favorite Poem Project," which asks average Americans like Paul Litvak to recite poems they love.
His first book of poetry opened with a description of "jaunty crop-haired graying / Women in grocery stores," and in addition to "Poem About People" featured such poems as "Discretions of Alcibiades" and the long "Essay on Psychiatrists."  
Robert Pinsky