{"product_id":"9781466878495","title":"The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art,\" Robert Pinsky declares in \u003ci\u003eThe Sounds of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. \"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. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets--from Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to W. C. Williams, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ideal introductory volume belongs in the library of every poet and student of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163844428016,"sku":"9781466878495","price":9.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466878495_p0.jpg?v=1769892070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466878495","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}