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

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

"What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Accl

There is no better way for you to learn about poetry and to understand its elements than with PERRINE'S SOUND AND SENSE: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY. As both an i