The Sounds of Poetry A Brief Guide Anja Dunk who had once sworn fealty

who had once sworn fealty to Lumumba

embark on a dream long deferred

With expert advice and commentary

and the millennia-old skills of interweaving warps

The Sounds of Poetry A Brief Guide Anja Dunk who had once sworn fealtyBy: 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