Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters write by Robert Pinsky. This book was released on 2013-08-05. Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters write by Robert Pinsky. This book was released on 2013-08-05. Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Magnificent . . . poems to inspire [with] brief and brilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, monumentally enduring poems and how they are made— in terms borrowed from the “singing school” of William Butler Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium.” Robert Pinsky’s headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writer’s view of specific works: William Carlos Williams’s “Fine Work with Pitch and Copper” for intense verbal music; Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” for wild imagination in matter-of-fact language; Robert Southwell’s “The Burning Babe” for surrealist aplomb; Wallace Stevens’s “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” for subtlety in meter. Included are poems by Aphra Behn, Allen Ginsberg, George Herbert, John Keats, Mina Loy, Thomas Nashe, and many other master poets. This anthology respects poetry’s mysteries in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable.
The Sounds of Poetry
The Sounds of Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sounds of Poetry write by Robert Pinsky. This book was released on 2014-08-19. The Sounds of Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Glück, and Frank Bidart. This ideal introductory volume belongs in the library of every poet and student of poetry.
An Introduction to English Poetry
An Introduction to English Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to English Poetry write by James Fenton. This book was released on 2002. An Introduction to English Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to poetry makes use of prisoner's work songs, Broadway show tunes, and the cries of street vendors to introduce readers to the rhythms of poetry.
Jersey Rain
Jersey Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jersey Rain write by Robert Pinsky. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Jersey Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Impassioned, Personal Poems From America's Poet Laureate "It spends itself regardless into the ocean. It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction, The chilly liquefaction of day to night, The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one: It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River, Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne. I feel it churning even in fair weather To craze distinction, dry the same as wet." --from "Jersey Rain" Jersey Rain--at once masterly and intimate--marks a fresh, lyrical stage of Robert Pinsky's work. Poems like "Samurai Song," "ABC," "Ode to Meaning," "To Television," and "The Green Piano" have already attracted a wide readership. Now, assembled in this book, they become part of a larger, fugue-like meditation on the themes of a life guided by Hermes: deity of music and deception, escort of the dead, inventor of instruments, the brilliant messenger and trickster of heaven.
