![]() And for me, if anything I do is any good, it’s carried by that kind of cadence or melody.” … Something like that generates the poem. “Even just the cadence of pauses,” he explains. In an interview on NPR, Pinsky explained that the poems for the book were selected “because of the music of the language, and not from the meaning of the words.” In the interview he explained: He was there to promote his latest book Singing School, which is promoted as, “A bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past.” This collection of 80 poems includes selections from Sappho to Allen Ginsberg, Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson. ![]() ![]() The sonorous voice delivering the keynote address at the Conference on English Leadership (CEL) on Sunday, November 24, 2013, belonged to the poet Robert Pinsky. ![]()
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