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Preface: To the Teacher | |
Starting Out | |
Word Magic | |
Diction | |
Syntax | |
Pruning and Weeding | |
Clarity, Ambiguity, Obscurity | |
Questions and Suggestions | |
Poems to Consider | |
Famous, Naomi Shihab Nye | |
Sizing, Heather McHugh | |
We Three Kings, Anonymous | |
Realism, Czelsaw Milosz | |
Difficult Daughters, Angela Ball | |
A Poem of Attrition, Etheridge Knight | |
No,Mark Doty | |
David, Josephine Miles | |
For Hai Zi Who Call Himself Son of the Sea, Ye Chun | |
Form: The Necessary Nothing | |
Verse | |
Line | |
Form | |
Balance, Imbalance | |
Questions and Suggestions | |
Poems to Consider | |
Traveling through the Dark, William Stafford | |
April, Hettie Jones | |
One Heart, Li-Young Lee | |
Mulroney, Baron Wormser | |
The Impossible May Be Possible, Cynthia Macdonald | |
The Kiss, Marta Tomes | |
In the Beginning, Sarah Kennedy | |
Names of Horses, Donald Hall | |
A Grave, Marianne Moore | |
Storm Window, Conrad Hilberry | |
Making the Line (I) | |
Syllable-Stress Meter | |
Rhythm | |
The Length of Metrical Lines | |
Substitutions and Variations | |
A Little Scanning | |
Questions and Suggestions | |
Poems to Consider | |
Loveliest of Trees, A. E. Housman | |
Crows, Lizette Woodworth Reese | |
Balance, Marilyn Nelson | |
Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare | |
Scavenging the Wall, R. T. Smith | |
Hamlen Brook, Richard Wilbur | |
Move, Geoffrey Brock | |
Brown Recluse, Erin Belieu | |
Fiduciary, Randall Mann | |
Barbed Wire, Henry Taylor | |
The Payoff, Allison Joseph | |
Learning by Doing, Howard Nemerov | |
Making the Line (II) | |
Nonmetrical Verse: Long Lines | |
Nonmetrical Verse: Mixed Lines | |
Nonmetrical Verse: Short Lines | |
Syllabics and Prose Poems | |
Questions and Suggestions | |
Poems to Consider | |
The Return, Ezra Pound | |
Amaryllis, Margaret Gibson | |
A Simple Experiment, Muriel Rukeyser | |
The Wrong Street, Cornelius Eady | |
The Long Marriage, Maxine Kumin | |
Moon, Carol Frost | |
My sweet old et cetera, e.e. cummings | |
Meeting the Occasion, Lucia Cordell Getsi | |
The stillborn calf, Gary Young | |
The Sound and Look of Sense | |
Visible Form | |
Repetition | |
Alliteration and Assonance | |
Rhyme | |
Onamatopoeia | |
Questions and Suggestions | |
Poems to Consider | |
Laundromat, Lorine Niedecker | |
Perseid Meteor Shower, Christopher Buckley | |
Don't Look Back, Kay Ryan | |
January II, Charles Wright | |
Battle Scene, Kelly Cherry | |
Famous Last Words, Michael Heffernan | |
Guilt, Gerald Barrax | |
Ronda, Gloria Vando | |
Po_tolka, Christian Wiman | |
Reapers, Jean Toomer | |
To Autumn, John Keats | |
Content: A Local Habitation and a Name | |
Subject Matter | |
Subjects and Objects | |
Memory | |
Presenting | |
Implication and Focus | |
Questions and Suggestions | |
Poems to Consider | |
What She Could Do, Elizabeth Holmes | |
An Introduction, Judson Mitcham | |
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