I've read the entire 'The Art of...' series, and unfortunately 'Syntax' stood out as the least helpful. I appreciated the introductory linguistic lesson, the comparisons/contrasts between song and lyric, the varied perspectives from our 'great' poets and linguists, but 'Syntax' steadily devolved into a pure, high school/college-level syllable read of a handful of American poems. The book spends so much time in the minutia that I never recognized a clear message, a larger-level philosophy behind Voigt's points. There is so much on this topic to explore that I felt Voigt's treatment was single-minded and rather unhelpful.