Description: A bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past.
Brief description: Robert Pinsky is the award-winning author of over twenty volumes of poetry. He served as United States poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. He teaches at Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: Singing School is nothing like the usual anthology of safe and sane selections. Instead, it is a gathering of poetry designed to stimulate the young and startle the old practitioner, with a surprise around every corner. Where else might you find Sterling Brown's 'Harlem Happiness' next to Queen Elizabeth I's 'When I Was Fair and Young, ' and two poems away from Plath's 'Nick and the Candlestick'?...a book that will instruct and charm every reader.--Alicia Ostriker