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Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
By Robert PinskyPublisher Description
The latest in what has become a Pinsky pedagogical legacy.
. . . By paying deep attention to these masters, the poet
becomes a poet, through ‘the particular work’ of listening.
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“This is a good resource for students of poetry writing, or just wanting to know more about poetry, similar to a workshop, minus the writing part
This is a good book, I am not familiar with most of the poets featured in the book. What I like about this book is Mr. Pinsky encouraged readers to practice reading poems they really like and writing it down by copying or memorizing, putting it into practice in knowing the poem by "heart". Also the book is divided by parts that talks about free form, listening to the poems like a song and how the words flow through, variety of forms that used traditional and yet has its own unique voice, and dreaming things up, which has that surreal feel of the poem.
If you are looking for a book that teaches you the basics of poetry, this is not for you, this is just a handy guideline or short workshop that talks about different aspects of Poetry, based on different examples of poems written by the masters of the field. Mr Pinsky's explanation in each parts is simple with a dash of Philosophical, and starts each poems with a question a tidbit of explanation about the poem. W.W. Norton is for me one of the best publication of academic books that doesn't look like textbooks.”
About Robert Pinsky
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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