Sounds Good : 101 Poems to Be Heard

By: Christopher (editor) Reid

Sounds Good offers a collection of 101 poems, chosen to illustrate the function of sound in poetry. Christopher Reid provides brief notes, approaching the poems from different and sometimes surprising... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571195881
• ISBN13: 9780571195886
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

How the Sounds Make Sense

Sounds Good is about poems that make their point by the non-verbal sounds in the poem. Reid chose poems that used many different techniques to reinforce meaning or mood by sound alone. He points out how the jagged meter adds to the tense mood in "The Listeners." How a well placed word jars the rythym like a bang on a drum in "Her Strong Enchantments Fading." Many of these poems, like "Cargos" delight with dazzling wordplay. Others are simply more profound because of the simplicity of their sounds.