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Poet's work, poet's play : essays on the practice and the art

"A follow-up to the highly praised Poets Teaching Poets, Daniel Tobin and Pimone Triplett's Poet's Work, Poet's Play gathers together essays by some of the most important voices in contemporary poetry: Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Tony Hoagland, Heather McHugh, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Eleanor Wilner, Dean Young, and the late Larry Levis and Agha Shahid Ali." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007019157-d.html
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780472099979, 9780472069972, 0472099973, 0472069977
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The closeness of distance, or, Narcissus as seen by the lake / Eleanor Wilner
Heavy lifting / Marianne Boruch
The transcendent poem / Laura Kasciske
The "multi-homelanded" sublime / Pimone Triplett
Synchronizing time in the poetics of the Harlem Renaissance and the negritude movement / A. Van Jordan
Mock the mockers after that / Larry Levis
Cynicism / Alan Williamson
Surrealism 101 / Dean Young
A darkly defense of dead white males / Agha Shahid Ali
Fear of narrative and the skittery poem of our moment / Tony Hoagland
Ancient salt, American grains / Daniel Tobin
Aspects of the syllable / Stephen Dobyns
On and off the grid : syntax, part II / Ellen Bryant Voigt
The temporal lyric / Carl Dennis
When I say "I" : poets' use of the first person / Chris Forhan
Poise and suspense / Heather McHugh
Purity, restraint, stillness / James Longenbach