Preface / Kurt Brown -- Travel and the Sense of Wonder / John Malcolm Brinnin -- The Journey of a Jewish-American Poet / Ruth Whitman -- Entering the Canon: Our Place in World Literature / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- A Piece of Land Surrounded / M. Nourbese Philip -- The Nature of Poetry: Poetry in Nature / Alison Deming -- Talking Forks: Fiction and the Inner Life of Objects / Charles Baxter -- Mercantile Eyes: Travel Poems and Tourist Poems / David Wojahn and Lynda Hull
"She is startled at the big sound": Poetry as Translation / Stephen Corey -- So the Wind Won't Blow It Away / Emily Uzendoski -- Sex, Lies, and Poetry / Herman De Coninck -- The World As I Left It: Or Revisiting The World As I Found It / Bruce Duffy -- Cafe Rio / David St. John -- Writing It Down for James: Some Thoughts on Reading toward the Millennium / Alan Cheuse -- Following What You Lead: The Mystery of Writing Poetry / Edward Hirsch
The Far Outside / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Twentieth-Century Cosmology and the Soul's Habitation / Pattiann Rogers.
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