Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

â‚¬Å“Magnificent . . . poems to inspire [with] brief and brilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"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 madeâ‚¬" in terms borrowed from the â‚¬Å“singing schoolâ‚¬Â of William Butler Yeatsâ‚¬s â‚¬Å“Sailing to Byzantium.â‚¬Â
Robert Pinskyâ‚¬s headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writerâ‚¬s view of specific works: William Carlos Williamsâ‚¬s â‚¬Å“Fine Work with Pitch and Copperâ‚¬Â for intense verbal music; Emily Dickinsonâ‚¬s â‚¬Å“Because I Could Not Stop for Deathâ‚¬Â for wild imagination in matter-of-fact language; Robert Southwellâ‚¬s â‚¬Å“The Burning Babeâ‚¬Â for surrealist aplomb; Wallace Stevensâ‚¬s â‚¬Å“The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calmâ‚¬Â 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 poetryâ‚¬s mysteries in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable.
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-07-29
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-07-29
Format	Kindle eBook

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

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