Singing School
Learning To Write And Read Poetry By Studying With The Masters
“Magnificent . . . poems to inspire [with] brief and
brilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR 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…
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.”
$18.95
July 29, 2014Robert Pinsky is the author of many books of poetry, including Jersey Rain and The Figured Wheel, and of the award-winning translation The Inferno of Dante. His prose works include The Situation of Poetry and The Sounds of Poetry. He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University and lives in Massachusetts.
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Jersey Breaks
Robert Pinsky
The Book of Poetry for Hard Times: An Anthology
Robert Pinsky
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall
Robert Pinsky
Poems About Sculpture
Edited by Murray Dewart; Foreword by Robert Pinsky
Singing School
Robert Pinsky
Essential Pleasures
Robert Pinsky
The Life of David
Robert Pinsky