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Robert Pinsky The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide (Paperback)
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- Sounds of Poetry : a Brief Guide
- Publication Name
- The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide
- Title
- The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0374526176
- EAN
- 9780374526177
- ISBN
- 9780374526177
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Release Date
- 01/09/1999
- Release Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Features
- Brief Edition
- Topic
- General, Poetry
- Item Width
- 4.9in
- Item Weight
- 5.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374526176
ISBN-13
9780374526177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
690565
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sounds of Poetry : a Brief Guide
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Brief Edition
Topic
General, Poetry
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
4.9in
Item Weight
5.3 Oz
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Pn4151
Edition Description
Brief Edition
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"A painless journey through the foothills of poetry . . . One of the marvelous things about this book is Pinsky's deep recognition that a poem is successful not because of the poet's ambition or sense of purpose but because of the effect it creates in the reader, and in many readers over time"--Graham Christian,Boston Phoenix, "A keenly idiosyncratic account of the place of poetry in our time . . . not only interesting but suspenseful to read." -- James Longenbach, The Nation "One of the marvelous things about this book is Pinsky's deep recognition that a poem is successful not because of the poet's ambition or sense of purpose but because of the effect it creates in the reader, and in many readers over time"--Graham Christian, Boston Phoenix, One of the marvelous things about this book is Pinsky's deep recognition that a poem is successful not because of the poet's ambition or sense of purpose but because of the effect it creates in the reader, and in many readers over time, A keenly idiosyncratic account of the place of poetry in our time . . . not only interesting but suspenseful to read., "A painless journey through the foothills of poetry . . . One of the marvelous things about this book is Pinsky's deep recognition that a poem is successful not because of the poet's ambition or sense of purpose but because of the effect it creates in the reader, and in many readers over time"--Graham Christian, Boston Phoenix, "A keenly idiosyncratic account of the place of poetry in our time . . . not only interesting but suspenseful to read." -- James Longenbach, The Nation "One of the marvelous things about this book is Pinsky's deep recognition that a poem is successful not because of the poet's ambition or sense of purpose but because of the effect it creates in the reader, and in many readers over time" -- Graham Christian, Boston Phoenix
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1999
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808.54
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