Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the WorldGregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt div Essays on the craft and relevance of poetry by distinguished practitioners and teachers of the art br /div |
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Page 48
... wrote her bee sequence , five poems , in one sleepless week . Say the words : bee box , pupa , pollen , venom . The busy dark interior I had yet to see . I had been warned to wear light colors . It calmed the bees , my companion told me ...
... wrote her bee sequence , five poems , in one sleepless week . Say the words : bee box , pupa , pollen , venom . The busy dark interior I had yet to see . I had been warned to wear light colors . It calmed the bees , my companion told me ...
Page 198
... wrote them , the poem had been changed by early editors to four quatrains follow- ing the regularity of the hymn - meter . But as Dickinson wrote it out , she lengthened lines in what would have been the last two quatrains in order to ...
... wrote them , the poem had been changed by early editors to four quatrains follow- ing the regularity of the hymn - meter . But as Dickinson wrote it out , she lengthened lines in what would have been the last two quatrains in order to ...
Page 204
... wrote he is working to make sense of the disparity between the straining yet exquisite concentration of artistic making and the intractable raw experience — his own or others ' — that was the stuff of his poems . From the tilted lanes ...
... wrote he is working to make sense of the disparity between the straining yet exquisite concentration of artistic making and the intractable raw experience — his own or others ' — that was the stuff of his poems . From the tilted lanes ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Obstinate Humanity | 23 |
MARIANNE BORUCH | 48 |
Copyright | |
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