| Description |
xiii, 135 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 133). |
| Summary |
"A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
In a Word, a World -- My American Scrawl -- Hold Still, Lion -- A Plague of Poets -- The Book That Jane Wrote: Midnights -- Nuptials & Violence -- Stripe for Stripe -- Poems are my building projects -- Jean Valentine, Abridged -- Purgatorio -- In a Word, -- Listening to John's Is Music -- A Reader for Every Writer -- The Book That Jane Wrote -- Hold Still, -- Talking Pictures -- Concerning Why Poetry Offers a Better Deal Than the World's Biggest Retailer -- Jean Valentine, -- Poetry was. Poetry is. Poetry will be. -- Bookburn -- Spring & All -- In a Word, -- Spring & All -- The not knowing whether what you've set down is any good -- Hold Still, -- Hold Still, -- Rene Char asked, What can we do -- Spring & All -- Nuptials & Violence -- The Book That Jane Wrote -- Purgatorio -- During the Composition of Rising, Falling, Hovering -- Pictures Never Taken but Received -- On a wall in Whitechapel -- In a Word, -- Jean Valentine, -- Spring & All -- Are we still seers and dreamers -- The Book We Hold in Common -- The Book That Brenda Wrote: Seasonal Works with Letters On Fire -- My American Scrawl -- I remain haunted -- In a Word, -- Nuptials & Violence -- During the Composition of Rising, Falling, Hovering -- Hold Still, -- If one were to try to describe the heed that poetry requires -- Of Those Who Can Afford to Be Gentle -- In a Word, -- Nuptials & Violence -- The old business about form & content -- In Another Book That Brenda Wrote: Practical Water -- Of Those Who Can Afford to Be Gentle -- I went to hear a young man talk -- Spring & All -- The Book That Brenda Wrote -- Hold Still, -- Jean Valentine, -- Spring & All -- Jean Valentine, -- The Orchidaceous Ms. Loy, the Amaranth, the Octopus -- If the nineteenth century novel cannot be bested -- "The Poem" -- Michale Ondaatje's "Driving with Dominic..." -- Jean Valentine, -- Spring & All -- Hold Still, -- Jean Valentine, -- Le Gusta Este Jardin... -- In a Word, -- Poet Gale Nelson told me his all-time favorite blurb -- Questionnaire in January -- Grandma Wright completed fourth grade -- End Sheet -- Among the Poetry Books Quoted -- About the Author. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry -- Authorship.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
9781556594854 (paperback) |
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1556594852 (paperback) |
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