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Making poems : forty poems with commentary by the poets / edited by Todd Davis and Erin Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Excelsior Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Poetry--Authorship.
- Poetry.
- Creative writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : Excelsior Editions, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This diverse collection of poems and companion essays by forty nationally and internationally known poets allows readers to experience the creative process through the eyes and voice of each poet. No matter how often we are told that revision is an essential component of poetic composition, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to think of the poem as having sprung spontaneously, Athena-like, from the writer's head. By exposing readers to the finished product as well as the poet's own account of the poem's creation, Making Poems offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on the poetic process that will fascinate both beginning and established writers. The book also affords poetry instructors an opportunity to demonstrate to their students the ways in which poems can originate from seemingly mundane and unlikely sources.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Learning To Make Poems— An Introduction
- Red Sugar
- Man of the Year
- Knot Tying Lessons: The Slip Knot
- Brother André’s Heart: Montreal, 2003
- Factory Jungle
- Loving the Flesh
- Elegy with Fall’s Last Filaments
- To W. S. Merwin
- Contemplation with Ledges and Moon
- Pink
- Longhouse
- awash with blushing textures, your hips, lipped lilies,
- Dance
- Sonnets for the Amish Girls of Nickel Mines
- Double the Digits
- Borges at the Northside Rotary
- Clown Baby’s Summer Gerry LaFemina
- Up Late With Loons
- Penelope
- Revelation
- Covetous
- The Third Winter
- Anniversary
- Orpheus, Gathering the Trees
- Sunday
- Repairing the House
- Coming Out of Caliban
- Revising My Memoirs
- Christopher Street Pier (Summer)
- Blood
- Hot Pads, Cold Pads
- Fishing on the Merrimack, My Father Sees a B-24
- Myth
- At the Farmer’s Market in Eugene
- The Weak Already Inherited
- Beloved
- Leaving
- How Flatterers Must Be Shunned
- A Lock of Her Hair
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438431772
- 1438431775
- OCLC:
- 1444831194
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