How poems think /
Reginald Gibbons.
- 239 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-231) and index.
Introduction: how poems think -- This working against the grain -- Fortunately, the marks on the page are alien -- On rhyme -- On apophatic poetics (I): "teach me that nothing" -- On apophatic poetics (II): varieties of absence -- The curious persistence: techn? -- Simultaneities: the bow, the lyre, the loom -- Onyx-eyed odalisques -- "Had I a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues" -- Afterword: a demonstration.