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Robert Pinsky, 76, is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and author of several books of poetry, including “The Inferno of Dante” and his latest, “At the Foundling Hospital” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He spoke with Marc Myers.
The decaying resort town of Long Branch, N.J., was a great place to grow up and dream in the early 1950s. In warm weather,…