Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book he explains how poets use the "technology" of poetry - - its sounds - - to create works of art that are "performed" in us when we read them aloud. He devotes brief informative chapters to accent and duration syntax and line like and unlike sounds blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets - - from Shakespeare Donne and Herbert to W. C. Williams Frost Elizabeth Bishop C. K. Williams Louise Gl ck and Frank Bidart. This ideal introductory volume belongs in the library of every poet and student of poetry.
Title: The Sounds Of Poetry: A Brief Guide
Author(s): Pinsky Robert
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374526177
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/1999
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets