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Pinsky, Robert

 
9780393348972: Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
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ISBN 10: 0393348970 ISBN 13: 9780393348972
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2014

Sinopsis

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.

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Robert Pinsky is the award-winning author of over twenty volumes of poetry. He served as United States poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. He teaches at Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
2014
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ISBN 10 
0393348970
ISBN 13 
9780393348972
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9780393050684: Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

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ISBN 10:  0393050688 ISBN 13:  9780393050684
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2013
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