Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Reanimation
Chapter 2. Utterances
Chapter 3. Signs of Life 1: Marks of Making, Signs of Design
Chapter 4. Assignments, a Reading, and Some Warnings
Chapter 5. Signs of Life 2: Speech Genres
Chapter 6. Naming of Parts
Chapter 7. Signs of Life 3: “Figures of Thought” or Gestures or “Interactional Devices”
Chapter 8. Toward Tone
Chapter 9. Playing Tone
Chapter 10. Versification and Intonation 1: Lines and Stanzas
Chapter 11. Versification and Intonation 2: Meter and Stress in Iambic Pentameter
Chapter 12. Versification and Intonation 3: Meet the Other Feet
Chapter 13. Climbing Mount “Lycidas”
Chapter 14. Complications of Narration 1: “Goody Blake and Harry Gill”
Chapter 15. Complications of Narration 2: “Simon Lee”
Chapter 16. Complications of Narration on More Familiar Ground
Chapter 17. “Attack of the Difficult Poems”: Charles Bernstein’s Experiments
Appendix: A Bakhtin-School Pedagogy for Poetry
Works Cited
Index