Contents
Introduction - Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning
How I Escaped from the Autobiographical Narrative of Crisis and Resolution and Discovered Oscar Wilde and theTradition of Theatrical Repartee: A Tortured Tale of Psychiatry and Makeup Tips - Tony Hoagland
Spill - David Baker
Cadaver, Speak to Me - Marianne Boruch
The Pressure of Reality - Michael Collier
Transition: Some Thoughts on Pedogogy and the New Old Sound - Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Ambiguity's Haunted House - Roger Fanning
"Without Although, Without Because" : Syntax and Buried Memory - Chris Forhan
Going Elsewhere - Linda Gregerson
Cinematic Movement of Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou - A. Van Jordan
Lyric Stories - Karen Brennan
Place, the Personal, and the Political: Connections - Betty Adcock
Lucky's Speech - Rick Barot
The Grace of Accuracy - Debra Allbery
How Far Out It Goes - Thomas Lux
The Song Can Also Be a Story - Stuart Dischell
No Elegies - Dana Levin
Greco-Russianizing - Reginald Gibbons
Learning from Time & the Poem Itself - Joan Aleshire
Rhyme and Quantity in Free Verse - Elizabeth Arnold
Unplanned Sequences - Martha Rhodes
The Expressive Use of Landscape - Jennifer Grotz
Honky Tankas - Maurice Manning
Sonnets, Holy and Unholy - Mark Jarman
Two Public Poems - Alan Williamson
Why Prose if It's a Poem - Laura Kaischke
Point of View - Carl Dennis
Needlework Poems - Mary Leader
Process, After the Fact - Eleanor Wilner
A Romance with Information - James Longenbach
The Necessary Fiction - C. Dale Young
Public Places, Night - Alan Shapiro
The Reaches - Daniel Tobin
Five Versions - Brooks Haxton
Writing as an Act of Reading - Heather McHugh
Same Bird: New Song - Ellen Bryant Voigt
Acknowledgments
Contributors