I found it somewhat difficult to dig into the book,but having done that I found it most interesting and directly applicable to my work. As one would expect, any book on the craft of writing poetry by Robert Pinsky would be exceptional. Sound—one of the central elements of poetry—finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. One of the most important contributions to poetics in years.”, "While it in no way poses a closed and declarative opinion regarding the relationship of poetry to sound, what Sound/Poetry is attempting to relay is that text and sound coexist, embracing one another in a graceful symbiotic ballet of infinite variables where separation is the hallmark of their togetherness. (RS) Please try again. If possible, download the file in its original format. Would make a great college poetry 101 text book.
As a published poet who also teaches poetry, I found this book helpful not only for my personal improvement, but for tips to share on how one can better appreciate poetry. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Not exclusively formal or classical poetry, either; Pinsky makes the case for the relevance of poetry's history with sound even in today's contemporary free-verse work. A helpful and unpretentious introduction to enjoying poetry. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. An engaging, gentle introduction to the sounds and history packed into the poem.
Reviewed in Australia on November 26, 2019. Pinsky breaks down the fundamentals of poetry beautifully, whilst guiding us into a sensory experience and comprehension of the medium. Strongly recommend it for readers of all levels. It deals with the way in which sounds in poetry (and also languages and visual presentation) influence the poetic experience of the reader/consumer. Oh, Robert Pinsky! Excellent Book to Cover Fundamentals of Reading Poetry, Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2014. His section on "like and unlike sounds" would have been a little clearer if he just allowed himself to use terms like alliteration, assonance, consonance.
In the interest of avoiding technical terms, he just keeps talking about how words "rhyme a different way". Pinsky has been a strenuous and long-standing public advocate for the art, our country's sole three-time Poet Laureate. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, the contributors to The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound explore such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme,the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose, theconnections between “sound poetry” and music, between the visual and the auditory, the role of the body in performance, and the impact of recording technologies on the lyric voice. My problem with the iamb has always been an assumption of how people speak and read. "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. “…the stress on a syllable in English is not inherent in the sound, but relative.
You can write a book review and share your experiences. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. More sophisticated than Oliver's discussion, Pinsky's examination of poetry is insightful but his discussion can be a bit elusive at times. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound—connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkinbreak that critical silence to readdress some of thefundamental connections between poetry and sound—connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. Vocabulary both strange and lovely! He teaches at Boston University and is the poetry editor at Slate. has been added to your Cart, Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies). “A keenly idiosyncratic account of the place of poetry in our time . I find it enormously refreshing that there is not a shred of ego in this book, but only passion and love for the mysteries of metre, sounds and composition. Sound—one of the central elements of poetry—finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms.
Many of the elements can be compared with the sounds of poetry in other languages... just the sound ... not the content ... musicality of poetry alone can tell you a lot. He says he sees a resurgence in American poetry right now, and a new recognition of different lives and experiences. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site.
The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound—connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound—connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019. All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification. I took the time to notice power verbs, to marvel at the incredible draw of rhyming couplets (primal? While Pinksy does simplify some things it remains an instructive book and a worthy companion to Mary Oliver's books on poetry writing. Please try again.
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. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 7/20/2012: I was bowled over by this little book. This was no exception! more or less stressed.) Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. A curated list of English's 3500 most interesting words.
More than 35 audio recordings of Poetry and Arts Group readings and Chax Press-Cushing Street Bar and Restaurant readings in Tuscon, Arizona. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Welcome back. I am not a huge fan of Pinksky's actual poetry — I'm more of a Donne/Milton/Dickinson kind of girl. Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltip, The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, Grow Your Child's Library with Top Young Reader Series, 50% Off All Funko Wetmore Forest POP!, Plush, and More, Knock Knock Gifts, Books & Office Supplies, Buy One, Get One 50% Off Holiday Boxed Cards, Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Indie Poet Rock Star: The Poet's Guide to Ebooks, Marketing and the Self-Publishing... Song of Myself: The First and Final Editions of the Great American Poem, Poetry With Reason: Collections of poetry of life's emotions thoughts and love, A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky was born and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey. I really enjoyed Pinsky’s analytical tone of the art of reading poetry. Marjorie Perloff is professor of English emerita at Stanford University and author of many books, including Wittgenstein’s Ladder and The Futurist Moment, both also from the University of Chicago Press. Kind of cool to know, but incredibly impractical on its own and not necessarily always true, depending on what kind of cake you’re trying to make. Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. The sweet sound of language.. comes across even when you're reading in silence. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. While Pinsky doesn’t mention this work here, THE SOUNDS OF POETRY implicitly results from his immersion in a language largely unknown to him, and it ultimately addresses those readers for whom poetry yields meaning as readily as the Rosetta Stone. He has many diverse suggestions for what might help a reader (beginner to advanced) to gain a wider access to a poem's meaning and beauty. Having said that, a major theme of Pinsky’s work is that one shouldn’t be absolutist or rigid about these characteristics (e.g. This may be a book for readers of poetry but there are a great many poets who would benefit from it. Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse. My only complaint is that, for all its simple revelatory strength, Pinsky eschews the technical just a little too much. Unable to add item to List.
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. I read my poetry aloud to "hear" the rhythms in my lines. The Poetic Voice: Houghton Mifflin Poetry Podcast. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the "technology" of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are "performed" in us when we read them aloud. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, including The Inferno of Dante Alighieri and The Separate Notebooks by Czesław Miłosz. Sometimes, Pinsky just makes me feel stupid.
Celebrating the Sound of Poetry (Bookalogues). T.S. I've studied poetry in high school and then again for a semester last year. It heightened my own enjoyment of poetry and the book itself is fun to read and full of great poetry used as examples and exercises. 3-9). The file will be sent to your email address. Warm recommendations. Sound—one of the central elements of poetry—finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. My problem with the iamb has always been an assumption of how people speak and read. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s first book of poetry is early music indeed, from someone I expect to have a long and storied literary career.
Having said that, a major theme of Pinsky’s work is that one shouldn’t be absolutist or rigid about these characteristics (e.g.
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