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The Art of Revising Poetry : 21 U.S. Poets on Their Drafts, Craft, and Process / edited by Charles Finn and Kim Stafford.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Bloomsbury)
Other Authors: Finn, Charles (Editor), Stafford, Kim (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Subjects:
Poetry > Authorship.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • IMAGES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: WHAT DOES THE POEM WANT TO BE?
  • What Can Revision Do?
  • How Does Revision Work?
  • Drafting
  • Revising
  • How, in Revision, Does a Poem Get Going?
  • What Does the Poem Want to Be?
  • Shaping the Poem
  • Editing
  • Getting Help from Others
  • The Title
  • How to End
  • How Can the Process of Revision End?
  • SECTION I "I RIFFED, FOLLOWING THE LANGUAGE WHERE IT LED"
  • CHAPTER 1 BEDTIME STORY Joe Wilkins
  • At the Edge of Sleep My Son Asks for the Story About When We Were Birds
  • My Son Asks for the Story About When We Were Birds
  • Finding the Language, Finding Story
  • CHAPTER 2 WHEN THOUGHT'S SLOPE STEEPENS Jane Hirshfield
  • Counting, New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me
  • Counting, New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me
  • Stepladder, Vinegar, Persimmons
  • CHAPTER 3 INCREASING THE STAKES CMarie Fuhrman
  • Land Acknowledgment, Valley County, Idaho
  • Land Acknowledgment, Valley County, Idaho
  • Rhythm, Repetition, and the Drumbeat of Poetry
  • CHAPTER 4 RESEARCHING THE MYSTERY Jimmy Santiago Baca
  • River Run
  • River Run
  • What It Took to Get Here
  • CHAPTER 5 CREATING A MORE BEAUTIFUL STORY Sean Prentiss
  • The Constellations of Slate Belt, Pennsylvania (with notes)
  • The Constellations of Slate Belt, Pennsylvania
  • Without Myths or Constellations
  • SECTION II "MY FIRST DRAFT WAS A WORD TORNADO"
  • CHAPTER 6 INHERITANCE Frank X Walker
  • In Her it
  • InHerit
  • Revisions in Life and Poetry
  • CHAPTER 7 A MATTER OF INQUIRY Rose McLarney
  • Listen Here
  • The Collectors of Local Minerals Are Likelier to Find What They Seek
  • Identifying Gems
  • CHAPTER 8 GIFT FROM AN OLDER SELF Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Tears, Appropriate
  • Gravity Changes
  • CHAPTER 9 A POEM'S TRUEST EXPRESSION Yona Harvey
  • Hickory Street, New Orleans
  • Hickory Street, New Orleans
  • True Expression as the Last Trolley Stop
  • CHAPTER 10 AN INWARD DISSECTION Terry Tempest Williams
  • When Women Were Birds
  • When Women Were Birds
  • Once Upon a Time
  • SECTION III "IT FELT CLUNKY, FALSE, BUT I KNEW I WAS CLOSE"
  • CHAPTER 11 TO SEE AGAIN Paulann Petersen
  • A Furrier's Grandchild
  • A Furrier's Grandchild
  • I Hear the Poem Speak For Itself
  • CHAPTER 12 RADIANT ASSOCIATIONS Philip Metres
  • Translation: A Bearing Across
  • Ashberries: Letters
  • Letters I Must Wait to Open
  • CHAPTER 13 AN ACT OF FAITH Abayomi Animashaun
  • Exodus
  • Exodus
  • Discipline and Unknowing
  • CHAPTER 14 REMOVING DETAIL Tami Haaland
  • Deer on Crazy Creek
  • Deer on Crazy Creek
  • Making the Local Exact
  • CHAPTER 15 FORGING SOMETHING NEW Charles Finn
  • The Fiddle
  • Memory's Anvil
  • The Winch of Imagination
  • CHAPTER 16 MAINTAINING FIDELITY Shin Yu Pai
  • Empty Zendo
  • Emptying the Zendo
  • SECTION IV "I ASKED MY DREAMS"

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