{"product_id":"singing-school-learning-to-write-and-read-poetry-by-studying-with-the-masters-9780393050684","title":"Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters","description":"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, \u003cem\u003eSinging School\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003eRobert 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anthology respects poetry's mysteries in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePinsky, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Pinsky\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of ten collections of poetry. As a three-term United States Poet Laureate, Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, which gave rise to three previous anthologies. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches at Boston University.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323990577426,"sku":"9780393050684","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_074658a6-0312-4400-82ad-90bb5825dc4b.jpg?v=1727663656","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/singing-school-learning-to-write-and-read-poetry-by-studying-with-the-masters-9780393050684","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}