| Description |
x, 157 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents |
Statements and poems -- The experience of now: a dialogue with students -- Poems on keeping a journal -- Opening the moment: a conversation with Steven Ratiner -- Elemental moves: an interview with Michael Markee and Vincent Wixon -- An afternoon in the stacks -- Roethke's way -- Brother Antoninus--the world as a metaphor -- If I could be like Wallace Stevens -- Emily -- In memoriam: Richard Hugo, 1923-1982 -- Book review: Keat's poems -- A poet with something to tell you: on Philip Levine's poetry -- Suddenly everything became clear to him: remembering Raymond Carver -- Jeffers. |
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The current of humanity: Carolyn Forche's Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness -- The trouble with reading -- The farm on the Great Plains -- Fifteen -- Traveling through the dark -- Stereopticon -- Ask me -- Reaching into the well -- The writing of "Bess" -- Sometimes, reading -- The art of teaching -- Eighth-grade art -- Teaching notes: produce, reflect, perceive -- Sharing language: a conversation with David L. Elliott -- For our esteemed companions on the way: a greeeting at a writer's conference -- No praise, no blame: an interview with George E. Murphy Jr. |
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Interviewing Tracker Dog: a fantasy before the daily craft lecture at any writers' conference -- Waking up in Bremerton: an invocation -- Our workshop last summer -- Workshop gleanings -- Grooming a poem after it happens -- Five writing exercises -- Soul food -- being tough, bing gentle -- What is a current event? -- How these words happened. |
| Subject |
Stafford, William, 1914-1993 -- Authorship.
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry -- Study and teaching.
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Poetry -- Authorship.
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Poetics.
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| Added Author |
Merchant, Paul.
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Wixon, Vincent.
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| ISBN |
0472066641 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0472096648 (alk. paper) |
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9780472096640 (alk. paper) |
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9780472066643 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 1399493 |
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YDXCP 1399494 |
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NZ1 4888696 |
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AU@ 000013487674 |
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