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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