Warning
Introduction
Part I. Reading
Essentials
Poetic Aims
Accessibility
Biography
Close Reading
Emotion
Pattern and Variation
Ineffability
Sound Work
Rhythm
Enjambment
The Line
The Lyric
Metaphor
Ambiguity
Dickinson
Classics
Myths
Appropriation
Great Books
Whitman
Imagery
Roses
Prose Poetry
Narrative
Criticism and Theory
Pessoa
Political Poetry
Aesthetics
Reader Response
Classroom Reading
Poetry Readings
Reader’s Block
Spirituality
Flight
Part 2. Writing
First Principles
Form
Sonnet
Identity
Self-Expression
Memory
Sublimation
Imitation
Avant-Garde
Translation
Technique
The Creative Writing Classroom
The Workshop
Peer Review
Revision
Poet-Teachers
Professionalization
Master of Fine Arts
Literary Magazines
Publication
Series, Sequence
Chapbook, Manuscript
Collections
Book Reviews
Writing Conferences
Culture Jamming
Poetic Practices
Moods
Depression
Meditation
Procrastination
End Notes
Epilogue
Acknowledgments Index