Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on PoetryJames McCorkle |
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... QUESTIONS OF FORM TIMOTHY STEELE " The Superior Art " : Verse and Prose and Modern Poetry 120 CHARLES O. HARTMAN Verse and Voice 132 DENISE LEVERTOV On Williams ' Triadic Line ; or How to Dance on Variable Feet 141 LUZ MARIA UMPIERRE ...
... QUESTIONS OF FORM TIMOTHY STEELE " The Superior Art " : Verse and Prose and Modern Poetry 120 CHARLES O. HARTMAN Verse and Voice 132 DENISE LEVERTOV On Williams ' Triadic Line ; or How to Dance on Variable Feet 141 LUZ MARIA UMPIERRE ...
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 15 |
WILLIAM LOGAN The Absolute Unreasonableness of Geoffrey | 34 |
DOUGLAS CRASE How Emerson Avails | 48 |
5 | 51 |
JOHN TAGGART Of the Power of the Word | 59 |
EMILY GROSHOLZ Milosz and the Moral Authority of Poetry | 65 |
Sign for a Struggle The Struggle | 79 |
GLORIA ANZALDÚA Metaphors in the Tradition of the Shaman | 99 |
MCCLATCHY Anatomies of Melancholy | 312 |
Reading Julia | 328 |
LAURA JENSEN Lessons in Form | 337 |
MOLLY PEACOCK What the Mockingbird Said | 343 |
MARY SWANDER Lavender | 361 |
EDWARD HIRSCH My Grandfathers Poems | 367 |
GERALD STERN Caves | 376 |
K WILLIAMS The Poet and History | 388 |
2 | 105 |
HISTORIES | 110 |
Verse and Prose and Modern | 120 |
CHARLES O HARTMAN Verse and Voice | 132 |
DENISE LEVERTOV On Williams Triadic Line or How to Dance | 141 |
LUZ MARIA UMPIERRE The Breaking of Form in Lorraine Suttons | 149 |
BRAD LEITHAUSER The Confinement of Free Verse | 162 |
DANA GIOIA Notes on the New Formalism | 175 |
Singing the Body | 185 |
3 | 202 |
READINGS | 209 |
MARVIN BELL The Technique of Rereading | 220 |
ALFRED CORN Dickinsons Paradoxical Losses | 235 |
Their | 241 |
Dino | 248 |
On Budenz | 263 |
Denise Levertov and | 269 |
ROBERT MCDOWELL The Assembling Vision of Rita Dove | 294 |
The Poetry of Norman | 303 |
Some Notes | 399 |
JEROME ROTHENBERG The Search for a Primal Poetics | 414 |
Looking Ahead to | 420 |
MARGARET RANDALL Notes on the New Female Voice | 431 |
CHERYL CLARKE she still wrote out the word Kotex on a torn | 443 |
SAM HAMILL Shadow Work | 459 |
LARRY LEVIS Eden and My Generation | 466 |
SPECULATIONS | 474 |
RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS Otherhow | 480 |
JOAN RETALLACK NonEuclidean Narrative Combustion or What | 491 |
The Drama | 510 |
ANN LAUTERBACH On Memory | 519 |
DAVID LEHMAN Three Meditations on Wallace Stevens | 525 |
Pound Rilke Their Sculptors | 538 |
Apollinaire and Robert | 549 |
Religion and Poetry | 564 |
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS | 581 |
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