A Poem is a Walk / A.R. Ammons -- The Impure Every Time / Marvin Bell -- Damage / Wendell Berry -- The Wrong Turning in American Poetry, What the Image Can Do / Robert Bly -- The Question of Poetic Form / Hayden Carruth -- On the Road: Notes on Artists and Poets, To Define, A Note, A Note on the Local, "Statement" for Paterson Society, Poems are Complex / Robert Creeley -- Ideas of the Meaning of Form / Robert Duncan -- Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man: Som Subjective Ideas or Notions on the Care and Feeding of Prose Poems / Russell Edson -- The Poem as a Time Machine / Tess Gallagher -- "My Name is Darkness": The Poetry of Self-Definition / Sandra M. Gilbert -- The Hole in the Bucket / John Haines -- Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird: The Psychic Origins of Poetic Form / Donald Hall.
One Body: Some Notes on Form / Robert Hass -- Seen, Heard, and Understood, Towards an Allusive Referential / Dick Higgins -- Uncommonplaces / John Hollander -- Assumptions / Richard Hugo -- The Biggest Bomb" An Impressionistic Essay / David Ignatow -- Meters and Memory / Donald Justice -- Fenced-In Fields / X.J. Kennedy -- Sound Poetry / Bliem Kern -- Poetry, Personality, and Death / Galway Kinnell -- "Avant-Garde" / Richard Kostelanetz -- An Admonition, Origins of a Poem, On the Funcion of the Line / Denise Levertov -- On Poets and Poetry Today / John Logan -- Poems are Not Luxuries / Audre Lorde -- Language, Power, and Dream / Thomas McGrath -- Poetry, Chance, Silence, Etc. / Jackson Mac Low -- On Open Form / W.S. Merwin -- Personism: A Manifesto / Frank O'Hara.
The Nerves of a Midwife: Contemporary American Women's Poetry / Alicial Ostriker -- Three Poems / Ron Padgett -- Poetry and the World / Robert Pinsky -- When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision / Adrienne Rich -- On the Nature of Poetry / Michael Ryan -- The New Sentence / Ron Silliman -- Negative Capability and Its Children / Charles Simic -- Reflections on Narrative Poetry / Louis Simpson -- Tact and the Poet's Force / W.D. Snodgrass -- Poetry and the Primitive: Notes on Poetry as and Ecological Survival Technique, The Yogin and the Philosopher / Gary Snyder -- A Way of Writing / William Stafford -- Notes on the Craft of Poetry / Mark Strand -- In Search of Our Moathers' Gardens / Alice Walker -- Poetry and Happiness / Richard Wilbur.
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