The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374526177ISBN-10:374526176UPC:9780374526177Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Speech & Pronunciation, PoetrySize:7.52 x 5.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.3197Product ID:SCS69ZDNSA
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide
The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.
"Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing." As Poet Laureate, Pinsky...Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374526177ISBN-10:374526176UPC:9780374526177Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Speech & Pronunciation, PoetrySize:7.52 x 5.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.3197Product ID:SCS69ZDNSA
Robert Pinsky is Poet Laureate of the United States. FSG published The Inferno of Dante in 1994 and The Figured Wheel in 1996. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University and lives in Newton Corner, Massachusetts.
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