Contents
"It is for the Waking Man to Tell his Dreams"
About Being Born, and Surviving it
John Ciardi: The Many Gifts
John Ciardi's Early Lives
Thanks, John, for Being
Ciardi the Taler
John Holmes and Roy W. Cowden: Teachers of a Teacher
John Ciardi, Tufts Poet
A Note on John Ciardi at Michigan
English C, 1947
Letter to an Old Friend
From Dissertation to Friendship: The Joy of Knowing John Ciardi
The Mid-Century Fifteen, a Memoir
Ciardi's Dante
Form and Style in Ciardi's Dante
John Ciardi and Treat it Gentle
Writing Treat it Gentle: A Letter to Vince Clemente
A Blade
John Ciardi: Heart Like a Halfback
John Ciardi and "Jabberwocky" in the Indiana Comfields
John Ciardi: The Many Lives of Poetry
Ciardi at The Saturday Review
John Ciardi: National Treasure
Seeing Ciardi Plain
For John Ciardi: In Praise of Humor
Looking for John Ciardi at Bread Loaf
John Ciardi and the "Witch of Fungi"
Dionysian Memories
Ciardi Remembered
John Ciardi: His Wit and Witness
A Trenta-sei for John Ciardi (1916-1986)
Light Years Near: John Ciardi's Poems for Children
Energy and Gusto: A Note on John Ciardi
A Note on "Ciardi's Dialogue with Children"
Ciardi's Dialogue with Children
John Ciardi—"Nothing Is Really Hard but to Be Real"
Some Clerihews for John
John Ciardi, Science Fiction Writer
John Ciardi and the White Line under the Snow
Una Festa con John Ciardi: Random Thoughts
Ciardi's Winter Words: Some Oblique Notes on a Southern Education
The Good Influence of John Ciardi
The Last Photograph of John Ciardi
''A Man is what he does with his Attention": A Conversation with John Ciardi
Notes on Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index