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Writing Poems,9780673990136

Writing Poems

by Robert Wallace; Michelle Boisseau

ISBN13:

9780673990136

ISBN10:

0673990133

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Pub. Date:

8/1/1995

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Pearson College Div

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Table of Contents

Preface: To the Teacher

xv

Introduction: At the Flying School

xix

I Form: The Necessary Nothing

VERSE IS: Catsup and Diamonds

3

(28)

Line

5

(3)

Form

8

(1)

Fluid and Solid Forms

9

(4)

Balance, Imbalance

13

(4)

Space and Object: Line-Length, Stanzas

17

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

20

(3)

Poems To Consider

The Woman on the Homecoming Float

23

(1)

Gillian Conoley

The Three Poets

24

(1)

Ezra Pound

Read This Poem from the Bottom Up

25

(1)

Ruth Porritt

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

25

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Sacred Cows of Los Angeles

26

(1)

Gerald Costanzo

Stone

27

(1)

Charles Simic

Hamlen Brook

27

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Peepers

28

(3)

Margaret Holley

Free Verse: Invisible Nets and Trellises

31

(30)

End-Stopped Free Verse

32

(4)

Run-On Free Verse

36

(6)

Visible Form

42

(4)

Syllabics

46

(1)

Spatial Free Verse

47

(4)

Questions and Suggestions

51

(3)

Poems To Consider

Kidnaper

54

(1)

Tess Gallagher

The Man. His Bowl. His Raspberries

55

(1)

Claudia Rankine

The Quest

56

(1)

Mary Kinzie

We Real Cool

56

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Weakness

57

(1)

Toi Derricotte

The Wrong Street

58

(1)

Cornelius Eady

Potholes

59

(1)

Linda Hogan

Looking for You, Barbara

59

(1)

Ted Kooser

Barbed Wire

60

(1)

Henry Taylor

Meter: Spiderwebs and Rabbits in Hats

61

(30)

Accentual-Syllabic Meter

61

(6)

Substitutions and Variations

67

(4)

Rhythm

71

(4)

Scansion

75

(3)

Metrical Potential

78

(1)

Questions and Suggestions

79

(4)

Poems To Consider

from An Essay on Criticism

83

(1)

Alexander Pope

Song from Much Ado about Nothing

84

(1)

William Shakespeare

Song

85

(1)

John Donne

The Tropics in New York

85

(1)

Claude McKay

Jogging in the Presidio

86

(1)

Timothy Steele

Learning by Doing

86

(1)

Howard Nemerov

Those Winter Sundays

87

(1)

Robert Hayden

True or False

88

(1)

John Ciardi

Blue Jay

88

(1)

Paul Lake

Adam's Curse

89

(2)

William Butler Yeats

The Sound Of Sense: Of King Kong or Storm Windows

91

(30)

Diction

92

(4)

Syntax

96

(3)

Repetition

99

(2)

Alliteration and Assonance

101

(1)

Rhyme

102

(4)

Texture

106

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

109

(3)

Poems To Consider

The Plain Style

112

(1)

David Baker

Grief

113

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Eagle. Tiger. Whale

113

(2)

Gerald Barrax

Balance

115

(1)

Marilyn Nelson Waniek

The Question Answered

115

(1)

William Blake

As She Has Been Taught

115

(1)

Mekeel McBride

Evening, Herron's Farm

116

(1)

Chase Twichell

Outings

117

(4)

Debra Allbery

II Content: The Essential Something

Subject Matter: Nightingales and Fried Shoes

121

(34)

Presenting

129

(4)

Descriptive Implication

133

(2)

Camera Work

135

(6)

Clarity, Obscurity, and Ambiguity

141

(1)

Questions and Suggestions

142

(5)

Poems To Consider

The Study of Genius

147

(1)

Sandra McPherson

The Dead Monkey

148

(1)

William Olsen

Shopping in Tuckahoe

149

(1)

Jane Flanders

My Father's Rage

150

(1)

Andrew Hudgins

Names of Horses

150

(1)

Donald Hall

Aunt Sue's Stories

151

(1)

Langston Hughes

The Curator

152

(3)

Miller Williams

A Cast Of Characters: Duke, Drunk, Pig, and Lily

155

(34)

Narrative

159

(3)

Negative Capability

162

(4)

Irony

166

(5)

Symbols

171

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

174

(3)

Poems To Consider

Home Burial

177

(3)

Robert Frost

Out of Many, One

180

(4)

Claudia Rankine

Tuesday Morning, Loading Pigs

184

(1)

David Lee

The Rural Carrier Discovers That Love Is Everywhere

185

(1)

T. R. Hummer

Animals are Passing from Our Lives

186

(1)

Philip Levine

American Classic

187

(1)

Louis Simpson

In the Mirror

187

(2)

Tricia Stuckey

Metaphor: Telling It ``Like'' It Is

189

(30)

The Metaphorical Link

193

(6)

Pattern and Motif

199

(4)

Mixed Metaphor

203

(1)

Metaphorical Implication

204

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

207

(4)

Poems To Consider

Sonnet 130

211

(1)

William Shakespeare

Icicles

211

(1)

Mark Irwin

The Orthodox Waltz

212

(1)

Alice Fulton

One Summer Hurricane Lynn Spawns Tornados As Far West As Ely

213

(1)

Lynn Emanuel

The Fireflies

213

(2)

Margaret Holley

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

215

(1)

John Donne

Getting Dressed in the Dark

216

(1)

Vickie Karp

The Crow

217

(1)

Renee Ashley

Children of Sacaton

217

(2)

Greg Pape

Beyond The Rational: Lightning Bolts and Burglars

219

(32)

Word Magic

220

(3)

The Sense of ``Nonsense''

223

(5)

Metaphors of Experience

228

(3)

Mind Dreams and Body Dreams

231

(3)

Surreality

234

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

237

(4)

Poems To Consider

from A Midsummer-Night's Dream

241

(1)

William Shakespeare

Song of the Stars

242

(1)

Anonymous, Passamaquoddy

The Earthquake

242

(1)

Anonymous, Paiute

Iris

243

(1)

David St. John

La Muerte, Patron Saint of Writers

244

(1)

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Bone-Flower Elegy

245

(1)

Robert Hayden

The Good Reason for Our Forgetting

246

(1)

Marie Howe

Famous

247

(4)

Naomi Shihab Nye

III Process: Making The Poem Happen

Finding The Poem: Headwaters

251

(32)

Imitation, Mentors, Models, and So Forth

253

(3)

Sources, Currents

256

(3)

Getting into Words

259

(1)

Channeling the Sources

260

(3)

Keeping a Poem Going

263

(3)

Emotion

266

(3)

Some Fine Lines

269

(2)

Questions and Suggestions

271

(5)

Poems To Consider

Performance

276

(1)

Bruce Bennett

Ground Swell

276

(2)

Mark Jarman

1920 Photo

278

(1)

Patricia Dobler

Woman on Twenty-second Eating Berries

278

(1)

Stanley Plumly

Bread and Water

279

(1)

Shirley Kaufman

Mosquito Nets

279

(1)

Michael Waters

My Students Catch Me Dancing

280

(1)

Leslie Adrienne Miller

Fall

281

(1)

Robert Hass

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

282

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Revising (I): Both Ends of the Pencil

283

(32)

Exploring

284

(6)

Trying Out

290

(3)

Shaping

293

(6)

Titles

299

(3)

Questions and Suggestions

302

(6)

Poems To Consider

from The Task

308

(1)

William Cowper

After Long Silence

309

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Liu Ch'e

309

(1)

Ezra Pound

Slugs

309

(1)

Michael Heffernan

Poem for a New Cat

310

(1)

Ed Ochester

Song (After Shakespeare)

310

(1)

Maura Stanton

Siren

311

(1)

Amy Gerstler

The Sea-Side Cave

311

(1)

Alice Cary

Twila Jo and the Wrestler

312

(1)

Heather Ross Miller

Eyes

313

(2)

Linda Taylor

Revising (II): Seven-Eights of the Iceberg

315

(32)

Tightening

318

(4)

Focusing

322

(3)

Testing

325

(4)

A Set of Drafts

329

(7)

Questions and Suggestions

336

(4)

Poems To Consider

Ox Cart Man

340

(1)

Donald Hall

Disclaimer

341

(1)

Joel Ferree

Titanic

341

(1)

David R. Slavitt

A Bird came down the Walk

342

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Letter

342

(1)

Amy Lowell

Sentimental Poem

343

(1)

Marge Piercy

Interim Report

343

(1)

Elton Glaser

Laws

344

(1)

Stephen Dunn

Pesca de Esponjas

344

(1)

Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Our American Way of Life

345

(1)

Suzanne Gardinier

For the Women of Ancient Greece

346

(1)

Meggan Watterson

Becoming A Poet: A Hand at the Back of the Room

347

(22)

The Growth of a Poet

348

(6)

Po' Biz

354

(2)

Getting Organized

356

(2)

Money

358

(1)

Questions and Suggestions

358

(3)

Poems To Consider

Realism

361

(1)

Czeslaw Milosz

Dancing with Poets

362

(1)

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Stepping Out of Poetry

363

(1)

Gerald Stern

Like Miles Said

363

(1)

Alvin Aubert

The Supremes

364

(1)

Cornelius Eady

Selecting a Reader

365

(1)

Ted Kooser

Building an Outhouse

365

(1)

Ronald Wallace

Make Big Money at Home! Write Poems in Spare Time!

366

(1)

Howard Nemerov

The Next Poem

367

(1)

Dana Gioia

Raptures

368

(1)

David R. Slavitt

Appendix I - A Glossary of Forms

369

(12)

Appendix II - Notes to the Questions and Suggestions

381

(8)

Appendix III - Select Bibliography

389

(4)

Acknowledgments

393

(8)

Index of Authors and Titles

401

(8)

Index of Terms

409

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