Contents
Foreword: Ciardi The Teacher
The Act of Language
The Rage for Honesty: Why Poetry Changes
Twentieth–Century Poetry and Nineteenth–Century Readers
Fossil Poems
For the Love of Language
Survival
Selection, Simultaneity, and Requiredness: The Essentials of Poetry
Dear N:
"Juvenile Poetry" and Poetry for Children
On Writing and Bad Writing
Liberal Arts and The Arts
The Student Poet
Serious Joy
Teaching Poetry
The Poem as a Made Thing