The Practice of Poetry电子书

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART 1. LADDERS TO THE DARK: THE UNCONSCIOUS AS GOLD MINE

First Words Ann Lauterbach

Not-So-Automatic Automatic-Writing Exercise Thomas Lux

Translations: Idea to Image (for a group) Carol Muske

Dream Notebook Maxine Kumin

Ten-Minute Spill Rita Dove

Auction: First Lines (for a group) Michael Waters

“Only Connect” Sydney Lea

Chanting the Flowers Off the Wall (for a group) Christopher Davis

An Emotional Landscape (for a group) Cleopatra Mathis

A Journey to Nowhere Susan Snively

The Free-Lance Muse Ann Lauterbach

PART 2. THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD: IMAGE AND METAPHOR

One’s-Self, En-Masse Michael Pettit

Intriguing Objects Exercise/ “Show and Tell” (for a group) Anne Waldman

Breaking the Sentence; or, No Sentences but in Things Roger Mitchell

Five Easy Pieces Richard Jackson

As/Like/Finish the Sentence Linnea Johnson

Quilting in the Ditch James McKean

Getting at Metaphor Roger Mitchell

A Little Nightmusic: The Narrative Metaphor T. Alan Broughton

Experience Falls Through Language like Water Through a Sieve Susan Mitchell

Writing the Spectrum Elizabeth Spires

“Tell by Showing”: An Exercise Against Technique Roger Mitchell

PART 3. WHO’S TALKING AND WHY?: THE SELF AND ITS SUBJECTS

A. ASPECTS OF VOICE

Dramatic Monologue: Carving the Voice, Carving the Mask David St. John

The Widow Maura Stanton

Our Suits, Our Selves Christopher Gilbert

Letter Poems Robin Behn

Tabloid Tone Exercise Lee Upton

The Peasant Wedding (for a group) Mary Swander

Estrangement and Reconciliation: The Self Has It Out with the Self Leslie Ullman

“In the Waiting Room” Carol Muske

B. WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Who We Were Edward Hirsch

Your Mother’s Kitchen Rita Dove

The Night Aunt Dottie Caught Elvis’s Handkerchief When He Tossed It from the Stage of The Sands in Vegas David Wojahn

Not “The Oprah Winfrey Show” (for a group) Garrett Hongo

Extrapolation Pamela Alexander

Evolutions Deborah Digges

Afterimages: The History of a Reflection Jay Klokker

Subject and Sound: The Black Sheep Kenneth Rosen

A Poem That Scares You Sandra McPherson

PART 4. TRUTH IN STRANGENESS: ACCIDENTS, CHANCE, AND THE NONRATIONAL

Intelligence Test Alberta Turner

Personal Universe Deck Linnea Johnson

The Cut-and-Shuffle Poem Jack Myers

Finish This! Stuart Friebert

Twenty Little Poetry Projects Jim Simmerman

Collaborative “Cut-Up” Anne Waldman

Found in Translation Theodore Weiss

Homophonic Translation Charles Bernstein

Index/Table of Contents Exercise Lee Upton

Make Your Own System! Jackson Mac Low

PART 5. LAWS OF THE WILD: STRUCTURE, SHAPELINESS, AND ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES

Block, Pillar, Slab, and Beam Deborah Digges

The Fill-in-the-Blanks or Definition Poem Jack Myers

Opposites: The Attraction of Titles Stuart Dischell

Cleave and Cleave Carol Muske

Matthewsian Invisible Hinge Pamela Alexander

“Que Sera, Sera” and Other False Premises Christopher Gilbert

“The Props Assist the House” James McKean

The Familiar Alicia Ostriker

Writing Between the Lines J. D. McClatchy

The Poetry Obstacle Course Marcia Southwick

Important Excitements: Writing Groups of Related Poems Maggie Anderson

The Short Narrative Poem Roland Flint

The Cat Poem Alicia Ostriker

The Seduction Poem Alicia Ostriker

PART 6. MUSICAL MATTERS: SOUND, RHYTHM, AND THE LINE

A Lewis Carroll Carol Karen Swenson

Emotion/Motion/Ocean/Shun Susan Mitchell

Patterning Stephen Dunn

Breathless, Out of Breath Richard Jackson

Free-Verse Lineation Sharon Bryan

A Variation on Sharon Bryan’s Free-Verse Lineation Jack Myers

“Lyric” Poetry Dana Gioia

Shall We Dance? Richard Jackson

Short Lines and Long Lines Andrew Hudgins

Word Problems and Science Tests Robin Becker

Anglo-Saxon Lines Judith Baumel

Sapphic Stanzas Judith Baumel

Pantoum Judith Baumel

Attempting a Villanelle Molly Peacock

Ghazal: The Charms of a Considered Disunity Agha Shahid Ali

The Meter Reader Thomas Rabbitt

PART 7. MAJOR AND MINOR SURGERY: ON REVISION AND WRITER’S BLOCK

A. EXERCISES

Writer’s Block: An Antidote Daniel Halpern

Smash Palace William Matthews

Rhapsodizing Repetitions Lee Upton

Stealing the Goods Stephen Dunn

Jump-Starting the Dead Poem Lynne McMahon

Scissors & Scotch Tape Chase Twichell

In a Dark Room: Photography and Revision Maggie Anderson

The Party of the Century (for a group) Roger Weingarten

The Shell Game Thomas Rabbitt

B. REFLECTIONS

The Rewrite as Assignment Stanley Plumly

Household Economy, Ruthlessness, Romance, and the Art of Hospitality Richard Tillinghast

Of Revision Donald Justice

In Praise of Malice: Thoughts on Revision Lynn Emanuel

Waiting and Silence Susan Snively

APPENDIX A: Mail-Order Sources of Poetry Books

APPENDIX B: Published Works Referred to in the Text

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