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9781889330259

Stealing Glimpses: Of Poetry, Poets, and Things in Between

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    9781889330259

  • ISBN10:

    1889330256

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-04-01
  • Publisher: Sarabande Books
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Summary

A journey through poetry, skippered by a first-person personal narrator.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v
A Word Predator
3(6)
The Poetry of Goats
9(6)
The Wit of William Matthews
15(8)
Stealing Glimpses
23(4)
Poets and Their Friends
27(10)
True Confession
37(4)
Squirming Cuneiform: When a Dance Is a Poem
41(4)
Ashbery's Stand-Up Comedy
45(12)
Barbara Guest's Drama
57(8)
Short Survey of Scruples
65(6)
Against the Gate
71(4)
A Questing: Adrienne Rich
75(14)
Waste Lands
89(6)
The Poetry of Paucity
95(4)
Oopalie Operajita
99(4)
The Subject of a Poem Is Astonishment: Charles Simic
103(8)
The Cost of Poetry
111(14)
Margaret Amanuensis
125(6)
Lorrie "Metaphor" Moore
131(12)
The Small Press Muse and Its Difficulties
143(16)
Poets Are Not a Special Breed: Galway Kinnell
159(8)
Mortal Immortal
167(6)
Bookless
173(6)
Address Book
179(4)
Harriet's Ghost
183(8)
Pleasures of a Critic
191(10)
The Slant of the Sidelong: Partiality and a Poet
201(12)
THE AUTHOR 213

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