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Index
Introduction PART I 1. Why Write? 2. Poetry in the Beginning 3. The Mind of the Poet 4. What Writing Does for Us 5. Belief in the Unwritten 6. The Blue Mountains Far Away: The Art of Listening 7. Kinds of Silence 8. Truth, Lies and Poetry 9. How Do You Know? 10. The Five Senses 11. The Sixth Sense: Intuitive Knowing 12. Inviting Inspiration 13. Who and What Defines You? 14. Responding to a Complicated World 15. Your Own Company: Writing and Solitude 16. The “Evils” of Procrastination 17. And if You Don’t Write? 18. Losing Your Way, and Other Perils and Pitfalls 19. Abandoned on a Cold, Hard Street by Poetry: Writer’s Block 20. Living with the Internal Critic 21. The Poet Within PART II 22. Loving Words 23. What Makes a Poem a Poem? 24. The Various Forms Poetry Takes: From Free Verse to the Villanelle 25. The Element of Sound 26. The Shape of It 27. To Punctuate or Not to Punctuate 28. Voice and Style 29. “Since Feeling Is First”: The Troublesome Adjective and Getting to Original Thought 30. Simile and Metaphor 31. By Heart or By Head 32. Where Do You Write? 33. Tools of the Trade 34. Rules You’ll Love to Follow: A Surprising List PART III 35. Writing Faster Than You Can Think 36. I Remember: Memory and Poetry 37. Lost and Found 38. “I’ve Known Rivers” 39. These Are the Hands 40. “A List of Further Possibilities” 41. Who Said You Couldn’t Say That? 42. Your Very Human Body 43. The Love Poem 44. Twenty Questions That Ask but Do Not Answer 45. Did I Hear That Right?: Overheard Conversations Transformed into Poems 46. The Found Poem 47. A Walk in the Dark 48. “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night” 49. Fear and What Eases It a Little 50. My Birth and My Name: “at the rupture where land became ocean” 51. “Nothing’s Left” 52. The Lost Words 53. Into the Future: Take Yourself There Now 54. A Formal Form for Fun (and Hopefully Not Too Much Frustration) 55. Five for Five PART IV 56. Success and Failure 57. Making Your Words Stick to the Page: The Editing Process 58. Not by Any Other Name: Titling Your Poems 59. Time for a Trustworthy Reader? 60. Open Your Notebook and Let Your Poems Out 61. Sound Check: Reading and Performing Your Poems 62. Alternatives to Traditional Publishing 63. Creating a Poetry Manuscript 64. The Cover Letter 65. Book Publishing for Poets 66. The Poet’s Perils: Rejection 67. Living the Poet’s Life 68. Your Poetic License 69. How Writing a Poem Is Like Building a Fire PART V Websites where you'll find poems, essays, recommended reading lists, interviws, audio, video, and more Acknowledgments Permissions
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