Table of Contents
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Introduction
On the Line
Reading Lines Linear How to Mean
Who Is Flying This Plane? The Prose Poem and the Life of the Line
Three Takes on the Line
3/4/5
Two Lines
The Summons of the Line
Secret Life
A Momentary Play against Concision
Notes on the Point de Capital
Forever Amber
Remarks / on the Foundation / of the Line:A Personal History
A Line Apart
Furthermore: Some Lines about the Poetic Line
The Graphic Line
Shore Lines
Scotch Tape Receptacle Scissors and a Poem
In Praise of Line-Breaks
Grails and Legacies: Thoughts on the Line
Only the Broken Breathe
As a Means, Shaped by Its Container
A Line Is a Hesitation, Not a World
Four Allegories of the Line
The Hyperextension of the Line
Slash
The Line as Fetish and Fascist Reliquary
A Personal Response to the Line
The Uncompressing of the Line
Line of Inquiry
Out of Joint: An Ir/reverent Meditation on the Line
The Virtues of Verse
Case on the Line
Lines and Spaces
Lineation in the Land of the New Sentence
The Invisible Tether: Some Thoughts on the Line
“What I cannot say is / Is at the vertex”:Some Working Notes on Failure and the Line
Where It Breaks: Drama, Silence, Speed,and Accrual
This Is Just to Say That So Much Depends Upon
The Line
“And then a Plank in Reason, Broke”
The Free-Verse Line: Rhythm and Voice
Tiny Étude on the Poetic Line
Dickinson’s Dashes and the Free-Verse Line
Minding the Gaps
Line / Break
Rhyme and the Line
Enter the Line
Healing and the Poetic Line
Some of What’s in a Line
Harold and the Purple Crayon:The Line as a Generative Force
On the Origin and Practice of a “Signature” Line
Lines as Counterpoints
Two Takes on Poetic Meaning and the Line
The Line Is the Leaf
Writing Against Temperament: The Line
Some Thoughts on the Integrity of the Single Line in Poetry
Comma Splice and Jump-Cut: On the Line
Clarity and Mystery: Some Thoughts on the Line
Captivated by Syllabics
Croon: A Brief on the Line
Breadthless Length
A Few Lines on the Line
Life / Line: (Freaked)
A Few Attempts at Threading a Needle
A Broken Thing?
The Thin Line
The Broken Line: Excess and Incommensurability
Line: So We Go Away
Some Notes on the Poetic Line inG. C. Waldrep and Lily Brown
The Only Tool
The Economy of the Line
Contributor Notes
Index