Here he is, for example, on the near-monotonous minimalism of W.C. Williams's "To a Poor Old Woman": "The poem dramatizes the taking in of a supposedly ordinary experience, and the playful, almost hectoring repetitions are like an effective sermon in praise of simplicity." Read with the free Kindle apps (available on iOS, Android, PC & Mac), Kindle E-readers and on Fire Tablet devices.
Pinksy writes well, but he really has nothing to say.
stress on a syllable in English is not inherent in the sound, but relative.
It is neither short nor long, by itself.
).Notwithstanding, poetry when read aloud(even to oneself)becomes a 'unique experience of the moment ' comparable to looking at a piece of art or painting and Pinsky is to be applauded for helping us to achieve this laudable goal, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2011. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. Better to stick with Alfred Corn's quality guide, The Poem's Heartbeat (LJ 4/1/97). "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. This title, oddly written in a humorless, academic first person for the novice, tells us more about what Pinsky thinks than about the subtle merging of the oral and written craft of English verse. "As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. Unless you make the mistake of pronouncing the words in some special, chanting or "poetic" manner, you can hear both the pattern and the constant variation. I can't remember how many copies of this book I have purchased from Amazon and other sellers, but I do remember I bought this one because the one I bought before this wore out from use. But this book broke open the aural experience and possibilities of poetry for me like nothing else ever has.
What exactly does the voice do to create that audible, distinct accent? In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing.
True to the poetic stance of brevity, this book provides a lot of information in 129 pages.
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. Pinsky provides the serious student with an enjoyable dive into the most helpful methods to read poetry. Members save with free shipping everyday! You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy. I am returning my copy. Poetry, like God, is in the details, and the author starts with the building blocks, the amino acids, of verse: accent and duration. Still, these poetic baedekers tend to get bogged down in terminology and historical hairsplitting, while the actual music gets lost in the shuffle.
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling.
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