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Writing Poems

ISBN: 9780673990136 | 0673990133
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 8/1/1995

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Table of Contents
Preface: To the Teacherxv
Introduction: At the Flying Schoolxix
I Form: The Necessary Nothing
VERSE IS: Catsup and Diamonds
3(28)
... MORE
Line
5(3)
Form
8(1)
Fluid and Solid Forms
9(4)
Balance, Imbalance
13(4)
Space and Object: Line-Length, Stanzas
17(3)
Questions and Suggestions
20(3)
Poems To Consider
The Woman on the Homecoming Float
23(1)
Gillian Conoley
The Three Poets
24(1)
Ezra Pound
Read This Poem from the Bottom Up
25(1)
Ruth Porritt
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
25(1)
William Wordsworth
The Sacred Cows of Los Angeles
26(1)
Gerald Costanzo
Stone
27(1)
Charles Simic
Hamlen Brook
27(1)
Richard Wilbur
Peepers
28(3)
Margaret Holley
Free Verse: Invisible Nets and Trellises
31(30)
End-Stopped Free Verse
32(4)
Run-On Free Verse
36(6)
Visible Form
42(4)
Syllabics
46(1)
Spatial Free Verse
47(4)
Questions and Suggestions
51(3)
Poems To Consider
Kidnaper
54(1)
Tess Gallagher
The Man. His Bowl. His Raspberries
55(1)
Claudia Rankine
The Quest
56(1)
Mary Kinzie
We Real Cool
56(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Weakness
57(1)
Toi Derricotte
The Wrong Street
58(1)
Cornelius Eady
Potholes
59(1)
Linda Hogan
Looking for You, Barbara
59(1)
Ted Kooser
Barbed Wire
60(1)
Henry Taylor
Meter: Spiderwebs and Rabbits in Hats
61(30)
Accentual-Syllabic Meter
61(6)
Substitutions and Variations
67(4)
Rhythm
71(4)
Scansion
75(3)
Metrical Potential
78(1)
Questions and Suggestions
79(4)
Poems To Consider
from An Essay on Criticism
83(1)
Alexander Pope
Song from Much Ado about Nothing
84(1)
William Shakespeare
Song
85(1)
John Donne
The Tropics in New York
85(1)
Claude McKay
Jogging in the Presidio
86(1)
Timothy Steele
Learning by Doing
86(1)
Howard Nemerov
Those Winter Sundays
87(1)
Robert Hayden
True or False
88(1)
John Ciardi
Blue Jay
88(1)
Paul Lake
Adam's Curse
89(2)
William Butler Yeats
The Sound Of Sense: Of King Kong or Storm Windows
91(30)
Diction
92(4)
Syntax
96(3)
Repetition
99(2)
Alliteration and Assonance
101(1)
Rhyme
102(4)
Texture
106(3)
Questions and Suggestions
109(3)
Poems To Consider
The Plain Style
112(1)
David Baker
Grief
113(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Eagle. Tiger. Whale
113(2)
Gerald Barrax
Balance
115(1)
Marilyn Nelson Waniek
The Question Answered
115(1)
William Blake
As She Has Been Taught
115(1)
Mekeel McBride
Evening, Herron's Farm
116(1)
Chase Twichell
Outings
117(4)
Debra Allbery
II Content: The Essential Something
Subject Matter: Nightingales and Fried Shoes
121(34)
Presenting
129(4)
Descriptive Implication
133(2)
Camera Work
135(6)
Clarity, Obscurity, and Ambiguity
141(1)
Questions and Suggestions
142(5)
Poems To Consider
The Study of Genius
147(1)
Sandra McPherson
The Dead Monkey
148(1)
William Olsen
Shopping in Tuckahoe
149(1)
Jane Flanders
My Father's Rage
150(1)
Andrew Hudgins
Names of Horses
150(1)
Donald Hall
Aunt Sue's Stories
151(1)
Langston Hughes
The Curator
152(3)
Miller Williams
A Cast Of Characters: Duke, Drunk, Pig, and Lily
155(34)
Narrative
159(3)
Negative Capability
162(4)
Irony
166(5)
Symbols
171(3)
Questions and Suggestions
174(3)
Poems To Consider
Home Burial
177(3)
Robert Frost
Out of Many, One
180(4)
Claudia Rankine
Tuesday Morning, Loading Pigs
184(1)
David Lee
The Rural Carrier Discovers That Love Is Everywhere
185(1)
T. R. Hummer
Animals are Passing from Our Lives
186(1)
Philip Levine
American Classic
187(1)
Louis Simpson
In the Mirror
187(2)
Tricia Stuckey
Metaphor: Telling It ``Like'' It Is
189(30)
The Metaphorical Link
193(6)
Pattern and Motif
199(4)
Mixed Metaphor
203(1)
Metaphorical Implication
204(3)
Questions and Suggestions
207(4)
Poems To Consider
Sonnet 130
211(1)
William Shakespeare
Icicles
211(1)
Mark Irwin
The Orthodox Waltz
212(1)
Alice Fulton
One Summer Hurricane Lynn Spawns Tornados As Far West As Ely
213(1)
Lynn Emanuel
The Fireflies
213(2)
Margaret Holley
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
215(1)
John Donne
Getting Dressed in the Dark
216(1)
Vickie Karp
The Crow
217(1)
Renee Ashley
Children of Sacaton
217(2)
Greg Pape
Beyond The Rational: Lightning Bolts and Burglars
219(32)
Word Magic
220(3)
The Sense of ``Nonsense''
223(5)
Metaphors of Experience
228(3)
Mind Dreams and Body Dreams
231(3)
Surreality
234(3)
Questions and Suggestions
237(4)
Poems To Consider
from A Midsummer-Night's Dream
241(1)
William Shakespeare
Song of the Stars
242(1)
Anonymous, Passamaquoddy
The Earthquake
242(1)
Anonymous, Paiute
Iris
243(1)
David St. John
La Muerte, Patron Saint of Writers
244(1)
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Bone-Flower Elegy
245(1)
Robert Hayden
The Good Reason for Our Forgetting
246(1)
Marie Howe
Famous
247(4)
Naomi Shihab Nye
III Process: Making The Poem Happen
Finding The Poem: Headwaters
251(32)
Imitation, Mentors, Models, and So Forth
253(3)
Sources, Currents
256(3)
Getting into Words
259(1)
Channeling the Sources
260(3)
Keeping a Poem Going
263(3)
Emotion
266(3)
Some Fine Lines
269(2)
Questions and Suggestions
271(5)
Poems To Consider
Performance
276(1)
Bruce Bennett
Ground Swell
276(2)
Mark Jarman
1920 Photo
278(1)
Patricia Dobler
Woman on Twenty-second Eating Berries
278(1)
Stanley Plumly
Bread and Water
279(1)
Shirley Kaufman
Mosquito Nets
279(1)
Michael Waters
My Students Catch Me Dancing
280(1)
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Fall
281(1)
Robert Hass
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
282(1)
Emily Dickinson
Revising (I): Both Ends of the Pencil
283(32)
Exploring
284(6)
Trying Out
290(3)
Shaping
293(6)
Titles
299(3)
Questions and Suggestions
302(6)
Poems To Consider
from The Task
308(1)
William Cowper
After Long Silence
309(1)
William Butler Yeats
Liu Ch'e
309(1)
Ezra Pound
Slugs
309(1)
Michael Heffernan
Poem for a New Cat
310(1)
Ed Ochester
Song (After Shakespeare)
310(1)
Maura Stanton
Siren
311(1)
Amy Gerstler
The Sea-Side Cave
311(1)
Alice Cary
Twila Jo and the Wrestler
312(1)
Heather Ross Miller
Eyes
313(2)
Linda Taylor
Revising (II): Seven-Eights of the Iceberg
315(32)
Tightening
318(4)
Focusing
322(3)
Testing
325(4)
A Set of Drafts
329(7)
Questions and Suggestions
336(4)
Poems To Consider
Ox Cart Man
340(1)
Donald Hall
Disclaimer
341(1)
Joel Ferree
Titanic
341(1)
David R. Slavitt
A Bird came down the Walk
342(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Letter
342(1)
Amy Lowell
Sentimental Poem
343(1)
Marge Piercy
Interim Report
343(1)
Elton Glaser
Laws
344(1)
Stephen Dunn
Pesca de Esponjas
344(1)
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Our American Way of Life
345(1)
Suzanne Gardinier
For the Women of Ancient Greece
346(1)
Meggan Watterson
Becoming A Poet: A Hand at the Back of the Room
347(22)
The Growth of a Poet
348(6)
Po' Biz
354(2)
Getting Organized
356(2)
Money
358(1)
Questions and Suggestions
358(3)
Poems To Consider
Realism
361(1)
Czeslaw Milosz
Dancing with Poets
362(1)
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Stepping Out of Poetry
363(1)
Gerald Stern
Like Miles Said
363(1)
Alvin Aubert
The Supremes
364(1)
Cornelius Eady
Selecting a Reader
365(1)
Ted Kooser
Building an Outhouse
365(1)
Ronald Wallace
Make Big Money at Home! Write Poems in Spare Time!
366(1)
Howard Nemerov
The Next Poem
367(1)
Dana Gioia
Raptures
368(1)
David R. Slavitt
Appendix I - A Glossary of Forms369(12)
Appendix II - Notes to the Questions and Suggestions381(8)
Appendix III - Select Bibliography389(4)
Acknowledgments393(8)
Index of Authors and Titles401(8)
Index of Terms409

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