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

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

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

An updated and expanded version of a classic and essential text on prosody.