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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in &lt;I&gt;The Art of Syntax&lt;/I&gt;. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. &#8220;This structure&#8212;this architecture&#8212;is the essential drama of the poem&#8217;s composition,&#8221; she argues. &lt;I&gt;The Art of Syntax&lt;/I&gt; is an indispensable book on the writer&#8217;s craft by one of America&#8217;s best and most influential poets and teachers.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent book for the beginning poet or the established poet who wishes to deepen her understanding of, and therefore her skill with, the language. Ms. Voigt, a musician as well as a poet, continually draws analogies between the rhythmic structures of music and the rhythmic structures of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72761808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This little book from Graywolf Press contains a lot of information!  Voigt writes about phrasing and syntax in poetry from the perspective of someone who knows about the parallel terms in music.  It is an interesting and  helpful book in the way that it made me think of how my reader's &quot;chunk&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61938096">more...</a>]]></body>
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