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Best words, best order : essays on poetry / Stephen Dobyns.
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- ISBN: 1403961476
- Physical Description: xiv, 338 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p.[369]-386) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Deceptions -- 2. Metaphor and the Authenticating Act of Memory -- 3. Writing the Reader's Life -- 4. Notes on Free Verse -- 5. Pacing: The Ways a Poem Moves -- 6. The Function of Tone -- 7. The Voices One Listens To -- 8. The Traffic between Two Worlds -- 9. Rilke's Growth as a Poet -- 10. Mandelstam: The Poem as Event -- 11. Chekhov's Sense of Writing as Seen through His Letters -- 12. Ritsos and the Metaphysical Moment -- 13. Cemetery Nights -- 14. The Maker's Manipulation of Time -- 15. The Passerby in the Birdless Street -- 16. The Problem of Beauty and the Requirements of Art. |
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Subject: | Poetry. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Poetics. Criticism. |