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

Citing the work of 50 different poets--from Shakespeare and Donne to Elizabeth Bishop and Frank Bidart--the Poet Laureate explains the principles of the sounds

America's Poet Laureate offers a fascinating journey inside the world of poetry to explore the fundamental workings of this literary art, explaining how differe

Sound—one of the central elements of poetry—finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perl

Robinson explains how poetry makes things happen through the interaction of its chosen words and forms with the reader's responses.