Singing School: Learning To Write (And Read) Poetry By Studying with the Masters

"A marvelous, career-crowning, 80-poem anthology with brief essays and headnotes offers Robert Pinsky’s account of how he learned to write (and read) poetry by studying the masters of the form. The poems range from Michelangelo’s lament about the difficulties of painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to Gregory Corso on marriage; Frank O’Hara, Yeats and Marianne Moore on poetry; Whitman on the Civil War dead; Sappho, Pound and Sylvia Plath on love; and Sterling Brown on a sleeping Harlem."