The Sounds of Poetry A Brief Guide Makenna Goodman * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK

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dressing for a day at the races

a big storm hits the pond

Manuel's journey unfolds in this first-ever biography

The Sounds of Poetry A Brief Guide Makenna Goodman * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKBy: Robert Pinsky Published by Macmillan, 1999 09 The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "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." As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is