TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pack,Robert
AU  - Parini,Jay
TI  - Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems 
SN  - 0874517737 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - PS325 .I58 1997
U1  - 811/.509 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - [Middlebury, Vt.], Hanover, NH
PB  - Middlebury College Press, University Press of New England
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Poetics
N1  - The Autumn Courtship of Surface-Feeding Ducks ("By the Nape") / Sandra Alcosser -- A First Step with "Dusting" / Julia Alvarez -- One More Poem ("Coming Round") / A. R. Ammons --  Critical Disobedience: Nine Ways of Looking at a Poem ("Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, 1936") / David Baker -- Falling Into a Rug: Some Notes on "The Oriental Rug" / Peter Balakian -- About the Dead Man Poems ("The Book of the Dead Man #70") / Marvin Bell -- Speaking for the Speechless Kid ("Hot 5th of July") / Philip Booth -- About Cora Fry / Rosellen Brown -- About "Wind, Horse, Snow" / Teresa Cader -- Poetry and History ("Sarit Narai") / Carl Dennis -- Souls on Ice ("A Display of Mackerel") / Mark Doty -- Writing "Parsley" / Rita Dove -- "The Guardian Angel" / Stephen Dunn -- "The Silence": Life Through the Lens of Structure / John Engels -- Starling Eggs ("Scorn") / Carol Frost --; A Descant on "Echo Location" / Alice Fulton -- Dressing Up Naked: A Life Class in Revision ("Woman with Gardenia") / Pamela White Hadas -- About My "Basket": Looking for Closure / David Huddle -- Talking Poetry at the Cafe Tazza ("Do Not Duplicate This Key") / Richard Jackson -- Gestations ("The Buddha in the Womb") / Erica Jong -- About "B Negative" / X. J. Kennedy -- Word for Word ("Poem for My Son") / Maxine Kumin -- Perhaps Before We Both Must Leave ("To the Young Woman Looking for the Eating Disorder Workshop Who Found a Poetry Reading Instead") / Gary Margolis -- Quid Pro Quo / Paul Mariani -- "People Like Us" / William Matthews -- On "My Mammogram" / J. D. McClatchy -- "For Gabriel, Falling Through Glass and Ice" / Lynn McMahon -- Seaglass: Notes on "The Hurricane" / Christopher Merrill -- "Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942" / Joyce Carol Oates --; Merely Dead, Not Absent ("Her Story, My Daughter Beatrice") / Carole Simmons Oles -- Naming the Animals ("The Trees Will Die") / Robert Pack -- Conversing in Oxford with Sir Isaiah Berlin ("A Conversation in Oxford") / Jay Parini -- Notes on a Poem: "Desecration at the Gravestone of Rose P. (1897-1924)" / Robert Pinksy -- Sleeps ("Nobody Sleeps") / Stanley Plumly -- Perspectives ("The Ferris Wheel") / Wyatt Prunty -- Elegiac Problems ("Years Later") / Lawrence Raab -- Homage ("Sad Stories") / Bin Ramke -- A Vision ("Sarah Fledging") / Hilda Raz -- On the Composition of "Solitude Etude" / Ira Sadoff -- An Alien and Silken Intelligence ("Silverfish") / Robert Siegel -- "Making a Statement" / Dave Smith -- "Lifelong" / W. D. Snodgrass --; On Reading Histories: "The Captain's Advice to Those Headed for the Trees: 1609" / Katherine Soniat -- Beginning to End ("I Will Love the Twenty-First Century") / Mark Strand -- Good Nature ("The Tapawera Raspberry Festival") / Dabney Stuart -- Rilke Unplugged ("On a Stanza by Rilke") / Thomas Swiss -- Writing the Unspeakable ("What Happened After") / Sue Ellen Thompson -- Cutting to the Bone ("Scar") / Eric Trethewey -- "To Throw Away" / Chase Twichell -- Kyrie / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Becoming Subtropical ("Bone Key") / Richard Wilbur -- The Dialogue of Question and Answer ("Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him") / Nancy Willard -- The Writing of "Adjusting to the Light" / Miller Williams -- A Destitute Time ("Little Purple") / Clara Yu -- Apples ("In Apple Country") / Paul Zimmer
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