I. Being a Poet: Comments and Interviews -- A Just Right Resonance -- "It Still Takes a Spark from Heaven": An Interview with Amy Godine -- Contradictory Influences -- Poems on Poets: Emily Dickinson, John Berryman, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, Richard Hugo -- The Art of Poetry: The Paris Review Interview with William Young -- Opportunities to Retrieve Paradise -- Speaking of Writing ... -- Some Suggestions from Experience -- The Answers Are Inside the Mountains -- II. On Workshops and Poetry Classes -- Meeting the Workshop -- The Minuet -- Goals -- An Allegiance to the Most Tongue-Tied: A Discussion of Workshops with Claire Cooperstein -- A Memory Map Exercise -- Workshop Insights -- The Classroom Contract -- From a Class on Poetry -- Farewell after a "Craft Lecture" -- III. Daily Writing -- Three Poems on Writing -- Three Days, Four Poems: An Interview with Vincent Wixon and Michael Markee -- Four Early Poems: "Vacation," "Fall Journey," "Traveling through the Dark," "Back Home" -- On Revision: An Interview with Vincent Wixon and Michael Markee -- Whatever the World Gives Me: "The Animal That Drank Up Sound," "At the Playground," "Coming Back," "The Magic Mountain" -- "An Indulgence in Loss": A Dialogue with Richard Hugo -- Just Thinking.
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