Singing School : : Learning to Write (And Read) Poetry by Studying With the Masters
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Freedom -- Listening -- Form -- Dreaming things up.
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. This anthology respects poetry's mysteries in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable. Pinsky's headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writer's view of specific works, finding intense verbal music, wild imagination in matter-of-fact language, surrealist aplomb, and subtlety in meter.--From publisher description.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Favorite poems submitted by redwood on July 24, 2019, 9:21pm This book is essentially Pinsky doing his own version of his crowdsourced project as US Poet Laureate: http://www.favoritepoem.org/. He's a fascinating thinker and his personal canon is a great addition to anyone's library.
PUBLISHED
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xv, 221 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393050684
0393050688
SUBJECTS
Poetry -- Authorship.
Poetry -- Appreciation.
Poetics.