TY - BOOK AU - Gibbons,Reginald TI - How poems think SN - 9780226277950 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - PN1031 .G47 2015 U1 - 808.1 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Poetry KW - Authorship KW - Poetics N1 - 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 ER -