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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Foreword by Dorianne Laux
A Few Words before Getting Started
1. How to Begin
Speak, Memory
2. I Couldn’t Stop Watching
3. Little Poems in Prose
4. Shards of Memory: Playing with Time
The Secret of Writing
5. Awful Poems
6. The Art of Revision
Music and Metaphor
7. After-Glow: The Interior Music
8. Lonely as a Leftover Thumb : Figure and Image
9. Speeding Home in Reverse: The Controlling Metaphor
10. Myth, Legend, and Pop Icon
11. Family Secrets: The Poem as Photograph
Experiment and the Tradition
12. Cut-Ups, Cross-Outs, and Ransom Notes
13. The House of Language
14. Flying Into Oneself: Dream Work and the Magical Image
15. Deranging the Senses: Automatic Writing and Ecstatic Poetics
16. Coils of Hardened Copper: The Modemist Revolution 137 17- Playing with Meter: The Measure of a Poem
18. A Lighthearted Look at Formal Structure: Limericks and Double Dactyls
19. More Pleasure of Form, and Rhyme: Sonnets and Villanelles
20. A Cribsheet of English Meters
21. Line Breaks
The Perennial Themes
22. The Body Politic
23. As Soon as These Blossoms Open: The Poetry of Love and Longing
24. Bodies Flaring in the Moonlight: The Poetry of Desire
25. Flower Burning in the Day: Poems of Loss
26. Into the Dazzling Void: Writing About the Natural World
27. Poetry and the Awakened Lite
Nuts and Bolts
28. The Pleasure and Pitfalls of Poetry Workshops
29. Getting Your Poems into the World
30. Resources
Afterword: The Mystique of the Difficult Poem
Acknowledgments
Index
Remembering Steve Kowit, 1938–2015, by Mark Melnicove
About the Author
Copyright
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