The rag-picker's guide to poetry : poems, poets, process / Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manning, Maurice, 1966- editor of compilation.

Wilner, Eleanor, editor of compilation.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

Poetics.

Poetry, American--21st century.

Poetry, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays and poems by 35 distinguished poets, illuminating the processes of conceiving, drafting, and revising their work.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction - Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning ""; ""How I Escaped from the Autobiographical Narrative of Crisis and Resolution and Discovered Oscar Wilde and theTradition of Theatrical Repartee: A Tortured Tale of Psychiatry and Makeup Tips - Tony Hoagland ""; ""Spill - David Baker ""; ""Cadaver, Speak to Me - Marianne Boruch ""; ""The Pressure of Reality - Michael Collier ""; ""Transition: Some Thoughts on Pedogogy and the New Old Sound - Gabrielle Calvocoressi ""; ""Ambiguity's Haunted House - Roger Fanning ""

""""Without Although, Without Because"" : Syntax and Buried Memory - Chris Forhan """"Going Elsewhere - Linda Gregerson ""; ""Cinematic Movement of Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou - A. Van Jordan ""; ""Lyric Stories - Karen Brennan ""; ""Place, the Personal, and the Political: Connections - Betty Adcock ""; ""Lucky's Speech - Rick Barot ""; ""The Grace of Accuracy - Debra Allbery ""; ""How Far Out It Goes - Thomas Lux""; ""The Song Can Also Be a Story - Stuart Dischell ""; ""No Elegies - Dana Levin ""; ""Greco-Russianizing - Reginald Gibbons ""

""Learning from Time & the Poem Itself - Joan Aleshire """"Rhyme and Quantity in Free Verse - Elizabeth Arnold ""; ""Unplanned Sequences - Martha Rhodes ""; ""The Expressive Use of Landscape - Jennifer Grotz""; ""Honky Tankas - Maurice Manning ""; ""Sonnets, Holy and Unholy - Mark Jarman ""; ""Two Public Poems - Alan Williamson ""; ""Why Prose if It's a Poem - Laura Kaischke""; ""Point of View - Carl Dennis ""; ""Needlework Poems - Mary Leader ""; ""Process, After the Fact - Eleanor Wilner ""; ""A Romance with Information - James Longenbach""; ""The Necessary Fiction - C. Dale Young""

""Public Places, Night - Alan Shapiro """"The Reaches - Daniel Tobin ""; ""Five Versions - Brooks Haxton ""; ""Writing as an Act of Reading - Heather McHugh ""; ""Same Bird: New Song - Ellen Bryant Voigt ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors ""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218).

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472072033

047207203X

9780472029679

0472029673

OCLC:

870998331