{"product_id":"phonotactics-barbara-sher-tinsley-9781952269844","title":"Phonotactics: The Sounds of Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarbara Sher Tinsley, Ph.D. (Stanford'83), has applied her academic, artistic, and literary knowledge, musical gifts, and love of nature to creating \u003cem\u003ePhonotactics, The Sounds of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a singer of the broad culture, the personal, of family life, sensuality, history, philosophy, place, and the significance of a well-rounded life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seemingly simplest of her poems are sometimes the deepest; the most complex appearing may be easier. Satire, humor, tenderness. These are her tactics of poetic sound, our surroundings, thoughts. Her surround sound is not in theaters, but in experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Fulbright Fellow and resident (two years) of Paris, Florence, Italy's Tyrol, and Almuñecar, Spain, where net menders gathered each morning, inspired a painting and a poem. Her long residence in California's Bay Area has enriched her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA professor of French, humanities, world literature, history, and English composition at Stanford, Santa Clara University, San Jose State, Stephens College, and several community colleges, she has published four books on European history; three on poetry, (another forthcoming); a novel on Italian culture; and articles in various encyclopedias and academic journals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer biography appears in \u003cem\u003eWho's Who in America \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eshe is listed in\u003cem\u003e The Dictionary of American Philosophers. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Tinsley's poems on language, philosophy, love, writing, music, history, geology, archaeology, astronomy, insomnia, business, family, hacking, fake news, violent movies, computers, gardens, art, contentment, literary criticism, let us meet not just the poet, but ourselves. For, as Aristotle thought best, she deals with universals, our shared humanity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer first two poetry collections are \u003cem\u003eArt, Passion, Poetry (2015), \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStreaming Consciousness \u003c\/em\u003e(2016). The fourth, \u003cem\u003eTravelling in Place ... and to Other Places, \u003c\/em\u003e will appear shortly. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs one perceives from my dedication, music was on my mind - my uncles' and my own - to create poetry that is truly musical, with meter, rhyme, and compelling themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhonotactics was a word I discovered thumbing through my dictionary while looking for another word. I had no idea what it meant, but learned that sound involves tactics and techniques, all involved in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy own poems are quite varied, from Renaissance villanelles and sonnets to philosophical musings on great thinkers. The poetry honors historical monuments to monuments dedicated to man's cultural achievements, and to their corruption or destruction by barbarians, old and modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy first two poetry collections are \u003cem\u003eArt, Passion, Poetry (2015), \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStreaming Consciousness \u003c\/em\u003e(2016). The fourth, \u003cem\u003eTravelling in Place ... and to Other Places, \u003c\/em\u003e will appear shortly. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Sher Tinsley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952269849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952269844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Strategic Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Barbara Sher Tinsley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486498795775,"sku":"9781952269844","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_31c798a0-643d-4949-bad0-76988e883f5a.jpg?v=1778055714","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/phonotactics-barbara-sher-tinsley-9781952269844","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}