Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht berieben, minimale Randl�ren, Knicke im Buchr�cken, Buchschnitt angeschmutzt, Anstreichungen im Inhaltsverzeichnis, mit Widmung von Mitautorin Rosanna Warren / lightly rubbed, minimal edgewear, creases to spine, book edges soiled, annotations to table of contents, with dedication by co-author Rosanna Warren. - In Conversant Essays, James McCorkle gathers essays by fifty-two contemporary poets who mirror the diversity of poetry now written in the United States. Contributors discuss issues of poetics, the power and spirit of language, gender, politics, the enactment of reading, and the role of the poet. / CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: The Prose of the Poet THE SUFFICIENCY OF LANGUAGE WILLIAM LOGAN The Absolute Unreasonableness of Geoffrey Hill DOUGLAS CRASE How Emerson Avails JOHN TAGGART Of the Power of the Word EMILY GROSHOLZ Milosz and the Moral Authority of Poetry RON SILLIMAN "Postmodernism": Sign for a Struggle, The Struggle for the Sign GLORIA ANZALDUA Metaphors in the Tradition of the Shaman JUDY GRAHN Drawing in Nets CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Three Chapters from "Novices" 2 QUESTIONS OF FORM TIMOTHY STEELE "The Superior Art": Verse and Prose and Modern Poetry CHARLES O. HARTMAN Verse and Voice DENISE LEVERTOV On Williams' Triadic Line; or flow to Dance on Variable Feet LUZ MARIA UMPIERRE The Breaking of Form in Lorraine Sutton's SAYcred LAYdy MARK RUDMAN Word Roots: Notes on Free Verse BRAD LEITHAUSER The Confinement of Free Verse DANA GIOIA Notes on the New Formalism ALICE FULTON Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic NATHANIEL MACKEY Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol 3 READINGS MARVIN BELL The "Technique" of Re-reading ALFRED CORN Dickinson's Paradoxical Losses GRACE SCHULMAN Marianne Moore and E. McKnight Kauffer: Their Friendship, Their Concerns JONATHAN GALASSI A Hymn of Non-Attainment: Dino Campana RACHEL HADAS On Bonnefoy AMY CLAMPITT What Comes Up Out of the Ground: On Budenz, Heaney, Ashbery, and Others SANDRA M. GILBERT Revolutionary Love: Denise Levertov and the Poetics of Politics MICHAEL DAVIDSON Cave of Resemblances, Cave of Rimes: Tradition and Repetition in Robert Duncan ROBERT McDOWELL The Assembling Vision of Rita Dove DAVID ST. JOHN A Generous Salvation: The Poetry of Norman Dubie J. D. McCLATCHY Anatomies of Melancholy 4 TRACING THE PERSONAL MARILYN HACKER The Trees Win Every Time: Reading Julia Randall LAURA JENSEN Lessons in Form MOLLY PEACOCK What the Mockingbird Said JAMES McKEAN Notes on Improvisation, William Carlos Williams, and Jazz MARY SWANDER Lavender EDWARD HIRSCH My Grandfather's Poems IRENA KLEPFISZ Forging a Woman's Link in Di goldene keyt: Some Possibilities for Jewish American Poetry GERALD STERN Caves 5 HISTORIES C. K. WILLIAMS The Poet and History ALICIA OSTRIKER Dancing at the Devil's Party: Some Notes on Politics and Poetry JEROME ROTHENBERG The Search for a Primal Poetics CHARLES BERNSTEIN Time Out of Motion: Looking Ahead to See Backward MARGARET RANDALL Notes on the New Female Voice CHERYL CLARKE she still wrote out the word Kotex on a torn piece of paper wrapped up in a dollar bill SAM HAMILL Shadow Work LARRY LEVIS Eden and My Generation 6 SPECULATIONS RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS Otherhow JOAN RETALLACK Non-Euclidean Narrative Combustion (or, What the Subtitles Can't Say) PAUL CHRISTENSEN Postmodern Bildungsromans: The Drama of Recent Autobiography ANN LAUTERBACH On Memory DAVID LEHMAN Three Meditations on Wallace Stevens MICHAEL HELLER "Translating" Form: Pound, Rilke, Their Sculptors and the Contemporary Poem ROSANNA WARREN Orpheus the Painter: Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay BARON WORMSER Soul Music: Religion and Poetry STANLEY PLUMLY The Abrupt Edge NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX. ISBN 9780814321003