Writing Poems

by Wallace, Robert; Boisseau, Michelle

Edition:

5th

ISBN13:

9780321026880

ISBN10:

0321026888

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

7/1/1999

Publisher(s):

Addison-Wesley

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Writing Poems, 5/e, offers well-balanced coverage of the creative process and technical aspects of writing poetry. Filled with practical advice for the beginning poet, the text is a thorough exposition of principles, a reliable handbook, and a convenient anthology that draws on poems. This market-leading text can be used at either the graduate or undergraduate level.

Preface: To the Teacher

xvii

Starting Out: An Introduction

(28)

Diction

(5)

Syntax

(3)

Pruning and Weeding

(3)

Clarity, Obscurity, and Ambiguity

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

(1)

Poems to Consider

Realism

(1)

Czeslaw Milosz

Shalimar Gardens

(1)

Carolyn Kizer

Famous

(1)

Naomi Shihab Nye

Tahoe in August

(1)

Robert Hass

Laws

(1)

Stephen Dunn

A Poem of Attrition

(1)

Etheridge Knight

(1)

Mark Doty

The Long Marriage

(1)

Maxine Kumin

El Dia de los Muertos

(1)

Rafael Campo

Dearest

(3)

Jean Valentine

Part I. Form: The Necessary Nothing

Verse

(25)

Line

(3)

Form

(3)

Balance, Imbalance

(6)

Questions and Suggestions

(2)

Poems to Consider

Loveliest of Trees

(1)

A.E. Housman

Outings

(1)

Debra Allbery

Scattering Carl

(1)

Peter Klappert

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Sacred Cows of Los Angeles

(1)

Gerald Costanzo

Poem for a New Cat

(1)

Ed Ochester

Hamlen Brook

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Quake Theory

(1)

Sharon Olds

These Heady Flowers

(1)

Elizabeth Kirschner

Storm Window

(1)

Conrad Hilberry

Does Joanna Exist?

(1)

Bonnie Jacobson

Day's End

(1)

Ann Townsend

Two Figures in Dense Violet Light

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Chinese Print: No Translation

(1)

Peggy Shumaker

The Kiss

(1)

Marta Tomes

Measuring the Line (I)

(30)

Accentual-Syllabic Meter

(5)

Substitution and Variations

(6)

Rhythm

(3)

A Note on Scanning

(4)

Questions and Suggestions

(4)

Poems to Consider

For My Contemporaries

(1)

J. V. Cunningham

The Snowfall

(1)

Donald Justice

Sonnet 29

(1)

William Shakespeare

Strugnell's Bargain

(1)

Wendy Cope

Balance

(1)

Marilyn Nelson

The Guilt

(1)

Gerrald Barrax

Afraid

(1)

Molly Peacock

Games

(1)

James Cummins

Epitaph

(1)

Timothy Steele

from An Essay on Criticism

(1)

Alexander Pope

The Tropics in New York

(1)

Claude Mckay

Learning by Doing

(1)

Howard Nemerov

Blue Jay

(1)

Paul Lake

Barbed Wire

(1)

Henry Taylor

Buffalo

(1)

Mark Irwin

Measuring the Line (II)

(29)

Nonmetrical Verse: Longer Lines

(2)

Nonmetrical Verse: Lines of Mixed Length

(4)

Nonmetrical Verse: Shorter Lines

(5)

Syllabics and Prose Poems

(2)

Questions and Suggestions

(3)

Poems to Consider

The Return

101

(1)

Ezra Pound

The Man. His Bowl. His Raspberries.

101

(1)

Claudia Rankine

Peepers

102

(1)

Margaret Holley

The Letter

103

(1)

Amy Lowell

my sweet old etcetera

104

(1)

E. E. Cummings

Holy Water

105

(1)

Christine Dresch

Promised Land

106

(1)

Lynn Powell

We Real Cool

106

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Hazel Tells Laverne

106

(1)

Katharyn Howd Machan

Savior (Mississippi 1957)

107

(1)

Ometeji Adeyemon

The Wrong Street

108

(1)

Cornelius Eady

The Day After

108

(1)

Jim Daniels

Potholes

109

(1)

Linda Hogan

Swimmers

110

(1)

Jay Meek

Snake

110

(3)

D. H. Lawrence

The Sound (and Look) of Sense

113

(28)

Visible Form

114

(5)

Repetition

119

(2)

Onomatopoeia

121

(1)

Alliteration and Assonance

122

(2)

Rhyme

124

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

127

(2)

Poems to Consider

Jump Cabling

129

(1)

Linda Pastan

Song

129

(1)

William Logan

When Icicles Hang by the Wall

130

(1)

William Shakespeare

Song (After Shakespeare)

130

(1)

Maura Stanton

Two Songs of a Fool

131

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Aunt Sue's Stories

131

(1)

Langston Hughes

Reapers

132

(1)

Jean Toomer

At Sixteen

132

(1)

Edward Hirsch

Famous Last Words

133

(1)

Michael Heffernan

The Art of Vanishing

134

(1)

William Trowbridge

For the Women of Ancient Greece

135

(1)

Meggan Watterson

The Fourth of July

136

(1)

Howard Nemerov

To Autumn

137

(4)

John Keats

Part II. Content: A Locan Habitation and a Name

Subject Matter

141

(26)

Subjects and Objects

143

(6)

Presenting

149

(2)

Descriptive Implication

151

(5)

Questions and Suggestions

156

(1)

Poems to Consider

An Introduction

157

(2)

Judson Mitcham

The Dead Monkey

159

(1)

William Olsen

Shopping in Tuckahoe

160

(1)

Jane Flanders

Diapers for My Father

160

(1)

Alice Friman

The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madam Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987

161

(1)

David Wojahn

Names of Horses

162

(1)

Donald Hall

Ronda

163

(1)

Gloria Vando

Traveling Through the Dark

163

(1)

William Stafford

What She Could Do

164

(1)

Elizabeth Holmes

The Curator

164

(3)

Miller Williams

Tale, Teller, and Tone

167

(31)

Narrative

169

(3)

Persona

172

(4)

Point of View

176

(5)

Tone

181

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

184

(1)

Poems to Consider

Witch of Coos

185

(4)

Robert Frost

A Simple Experiment

189

(1)

Muriel Rukeyser

The Rural Carrier Discovers That Love Is Everywhere

190

(1)

T. R. Hummer

Medusa

191

(1)

Louise Bogan

Arkansas Funeral

191

(1)

Brooke Horvath

Mary Poppins II: That's Ms. Poppins to You

192

(1)

Allison Joseph

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day

193

(2)

X. J. Kennedy

Extra Extra

195

(1)

Sarah Gorham

American Classic

196

(1)

Louis Simpson

In the Mirror

196

(2)

Tricia Stuckey

Metaphor

198

(24)

Figuratively Speaking

202

(3)

A Name for Everything

205

(2)

Pattern and Motif

207

(4)

Conceits

211

(2)

Metaphoric Implication

213

(2)

Questions and Suggestions

215

(1)

Poems to Consider

Icicles

216

(1)

Mark Irwin

Oread

217

(1)

H. D.

After Fighting for Hours

217

(1)

Kate Gleason

Suddenly I Realized I Was Sitting

218

(1)

Elizabeth Kostova

Sparrows

218

(1)

Christopher Buckley

Those Men at Redbones

219

(1)

Thylias Moss

Children of Sacaton

219

(1)

Greg Pape

Waking from Sleep

220

(1)

Robert Bly

The Release

220

(1)

Joseph Bruchac

Fireflies

220

(1)

Ted Kooser

A Red, Red Rose

221

(1)

Robert Burns

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

221

(1)

William Wordsworth

Beyond the Rational

222

(31)

Word Magic

223

(3)

The Sense of Nonsense

226

(6)

Metaphors of Experience

232

(3)

Mind Dreams and Body Dreams

235

(2)

Surreality

237

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

240

(2)

Poems to Consider

The Snow Man

242

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Nihilist Time

242

(1)

Rodney Jones

My Dream of the Empty Zoo

243

(1)

Janet Reno

Goat

244

(1)

Andrew Hudgins

La Muerte, Patron Saint of Writers

244

(2)

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Carry-On

246

(1)

Robert Stewart

Conception

246

(1)

Susan Whitmore

247

(1)

Carl Phillips

In the Madness of Love

248

(1)

Gary Soto

In the Mountains

248

(5)

Toi Derricotte

Part III. Process: Making The Poem Happen

Finding the Poem

253

(29)

Imitation, Mentors, and Models

254

(4)

Sources, Currents

258

(2)

Getting into Words

260

(3)

Keeping a Poem Going

263

(3)

Emotion

266

(5)

Questions and Suggestions

271

(2)

Poems to Consider

Dover Beach

273

(1)

Matthew Arnold

The Dover Bitch

274

(1)

Anthony Hecht

Bread and Water

274

(1)

Shirley Kaufman

Ground Swell

275

(1)

Mark Jarman

At Saint Placid's

276

(1)

Lucia Perillo

Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, 1936

277

(2)

David Baker

In Marin Again

279

(1)

Al Young

Late Night Drive

279

(1)

Deborah Kroman

A Nisei Picnic: From an Album

279

(1)

David Mura

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

280

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Devising and Revising

282

(28)

Exploring

282

(2)

Trying Out

284

(2)

Focusing

286

(3)

Shaping

289

(6)

A Set of Drafts

295

(6)

Questions and Suggestions

301

(2)

Poems to Consider

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

303

(1)

Richard Wilbur

An Onondaga Trades with a Woman Who Sings with a Mayan Tongue

304

(1)

Gail Tremblay

ABC

305

(1)

Robert Pinsky

Interim Report

305

(1)

Elton Glaser

Woman on Twenty-Second Eating Berries

306

(1)

Stanley Plumly

Two Poems of Advice

306

(1)

Wayne Dodd

Tuna

307

(1)

Michael Waters

Jittery Clouds on Memorial Day

308

(1)

Michael Nelson

Landscape

308

(1)

Deborah Tall

Fruit Flies to the Too Ripe Fruit

309

(1)

Michele Glazer

Becoming a Poet

310

(21)

The Growth of a Poet

311

(6)

Going Public

317

(2)

Writing Communities

319

(2)

Getting Organized

321

(2)

Questions and Suggestions

323

(2)

Poems to Consider

Dancing with Poets

325

(1)

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Stepping Out of Poetry

326

(1)

Gerald Stern

Diversion

326

(1)

Rosanna Warren

Like Miles Said

327

(1)

Alvin Aubert

Rain

327

(1)

Sidney Wade

The Bad Snorkler

328

(1)

Ronald Wallace

A Live Dog Being Better Than a Dead Lion

328

(1)

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Childhood

329

(1)

Arthur Smith

The Next Poem

329

(2)

Dana Gioia

Appendix I: A Brief Glossary of Forms

331

(6)

Appendix II: Notes to the Questions and Suggestions

337

(8)

Appendix III: A Few Suggestions for Further Reading

345

(4)

Acknowledgments

349

(6)

Index of Authors and Titles

355

(8)

Index of Terms

363

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