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Planet on the table : poets on the reading life / editors, Sharon Bryan & William Olsen.
LIBRA Special PN1064 .P56 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Writer's studio ; 4.
- The writer's studio ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--History and criticism.
- Poetry.
- Books and reading.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- "The tone may vary from one essay to another, but more than anything else, these are love stories, not rose-colored romances, but love that includes doubt, violence, wrestling with angels, and devils."-From the Introduction
- CONTRIBUTORS: Eavan Boland Madeline DeFrees Stephen Dunn Reginald Gibbons Edward Hirsch Maxine Kumin J.D. McClatchy Carl Phillips Stanley Plumly Mary Ruefle Adam Zagajewski and many others!
- Contents:
- Introduction / Sharon Bryan & William Olsen
- In the music room / Robin Behn
- Required reading / J. D. McClatchy
- Reading poetry / Jacqueline Osherow
- First principle / Albert Goldbarth
- Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world / Mary Ruefle
- Another, and another before that : some thoughts on reading / Carl Phillips
- One life, one writing : the middle generation / Edward Hirsch
- Shadow life / Eavan Boland
- Reading autumn / Stanley Plumly
- Caveat lector / J. Allyn Rosser
- Prosody & reciprocity (on reading) / Marvin Bell
- The cattle raid / Campbell McGrath
- Poetry and murder / Beckian Fritz Goldberg
- Reading list for American poets of the new millenium / Garrett Hongo
- Read me a riddle : the light and darkness of poetic form / Linda Gregerson
- Perverse reading / Mark Halliday
- A loose net : some meditative poets / Richard Lyons
- The compass of association / Cynthia MacDonald
- A few cells in the great hive / Reginald Gibbons
- Reading : preparing the mind for possibilities & the soul for tenderness / Stephen Dunn
- My road to Xanadu : a personal topography / Madeline Defrees
- Dancing as if free : reading, imitation, and influence / Richard Jackson
- Peripheral vision / Maxine Kumin
- From the valley of saying / David Wojahn
- Young poets, please read everything / Adam Zagajewski.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-360).
- ISBN:
- 1889330914
- OCLC:
- 49820748
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