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The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process
Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning, editors
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The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can't be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneous come together in the process of discovery. Within are contained the work and thoughts of:
- Betty Adcock
- Joan Aleshire
- Debra Allbery
- Elizabeth Arnold
- David Baker
- Rick Barot
- Marianne Boruch
- Karen Brennan
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi
- Michael Collier
- Carl Dennis
- Stuart Dischell
- Roger Fanning
- Chris Forhan
- Reginald Gibbons
- Linda Gregerson
- Jennifer Grotz
- Brooks Haxton
- Tony Hoagland
- Mark Jarman
- A. Van Jordan
- Laura Kasischke
- Mary Leader
- Dana Levin
- James Longenbach
- Thomas Lux
- Maurice Manning
- Heather McHugh
- Martha Rhodes
- Alan Shapiro
- Daniel Tobin
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- Alan Williamson
- Eleanor Wilner
- C. Dale Young
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Contents
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Introduction
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How I Escaped from the Autobiographical Narrative of Crisis and Resolution and Discovered Oscar Wilde and the Tradition of Theatrical Repartee: A Tortured Tale of Psychiatry and Makeup Tips
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Spill
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Cadaver, Speak to Me
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The Pressure of Reality
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Transition: Some Thoughts on Pedagogy and the New Old Sound
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Ambiguity's Haunted House
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“Without Although, Without Because”: Syntax and Buried Memory
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Going Elsewhere
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Cinematic Movement of Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou
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Lyric Stories
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Place, the Personal, and the Political: Connections
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Lucky's Speech
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The Grace of Accuracy
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How Far Out It Goes
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The Song Can Also Be a Story
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No Elegies
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Greco-Russianizing
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Learning from Time and the Poem Itself
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Rhyme and Quantity in Free Verse
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Unplanned Sequences
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The Expressive Use of Landscape
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Honky Tankas
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Sonnets, Holy and Unholy
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Two Public Poems
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Why Prose if It's a Poem?
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Point of View
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Needlework Poems
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Process, After the Fact
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A Romance with Information
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The Necessary Fiction
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Public Places, Night
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The Reaches
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Five Versions
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Writing as an Act of Reading
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Same Bird: New Song
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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CONTRIBUTORS
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Published: 2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-07203-3 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-02967-9 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-05203-5 (paper)