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
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780393050684
ISBN-13 : 0393050688
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Book Synopsis Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters by : Robert Pinsky

Download or read book Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters written by Robert Pinsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."


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