Conversant essays : contemporary poets on poetry

The absolute unreasonableness of Geoffrey Hill / William Logan

How Emerson avails / Douglas Crase

Of the power of the word / John Taggart

Milosz and the moral authority of poetry / Emily Grosholz

"Postmodernism" : sign for a struggle, the struggle for the sign / Ron Silliman

Metaphors in the tradition of the shaman / Gloria Anzaldúa

Drawing in nets / Judy Grahn

Three chapters from "Novices" / Clayton Eshleman

"The superior art" : verse and prose and modern poetry / Timothy Steele

Verse and voice / Charles O. Hartman

On Williams' triadic line; or how to dance on variable feet / Denise Levertov

The breaking of form in Lorraine Sutton's SAYcred LAYdy / Luz Maria Umpierre

Word roots : notes on free verse / Mark Rudman

The confinement of free verse / Brad Leithauser

Notes on the new formalism / Dana Gioia. Of formal, free, and fractal verse : singing the body eclectic / Alice Fulton

Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol / Nathaniel Mackey

The "technique" of re-reading / Marvin Bell

Dickinson's paradoxical losses / Alfred Corn

Marianne Moore and E. McKnight Kauffer : their friendship, their concerns / Grace Schulman

A hymn of non-attainment : Dino Campana / Jonathan Galassi

On Bonnefoy / Rachel Hadas

What comes up out of the ground : on Budenz, Heaney, Ashbery, and others / Amy Clampitt

Revolutionary love : Denise Levertov and the poetics of politics / Sandra M. Gilbert

Cave of resemblances, cave of rimes : tradition and repetition in Robert Duncan / Michael Davidson

The assembling vision of Rita Dove / Robert McDowell

A generous salvation : the poetry of Norman Dubie / David St. John. Anatomies of melancholy / J.D. McClatchy

The trees win every time : reading Julia Randall / Marilyn Hacker

Lessons in form / Laura Jensen

What the mockingbird said / Molly Peacock

Notes on improvisation, William Carlos Williams, and jazz / James McKean

Lavender / Mary Swander

My grandfather's poems / Edward Hirsch

Forging a woman's link in Di goldene keyt : some possibilities for Jewish American poetry / Irena Klepfisz

Caves / Gerald Stern

The poet and history / C.K. Williams

Dancing at the devil's party : some notes on politics and poetry / Alicia Ostriker

The search for a primal poetics / Jerome Rothenberg

Time out of motion : looking ahead to see backward / Charles Bernstein

Notes on the new female voice / Margaret Randall

... she still wrote out the word Kotex on a torn piece of paper wrapped up in a dollar bill ... / Cheryl Clarke. Shadow work / Sam Hamill

Eden and my generation / Larry Levis

Otherhow / Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Non-Euclidean narrative combustion (or, What the subtitles can't say) / Joan Retallack

Postmodern Bildungsromans : the drama of recent autobiography / Paul Christensen

On memory / Ann Lauterbach

Three meditations on Wallace Stevens / David Lehman

"Translating" form : Pound, Rilke, their sculptors and the contemporary poem / Michael Heller

Orpheus the painter : Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay / Rosanna Warren

Soul music : religion and poetry / Baron Wormser

The abrupt edge / Stanley Plumly