Table Of ContentContents Before Designing the Course: A Preface to the Teacher xix 1 Starting Out: An Introduction 1 Word Magic 4 Diction 4 Syntax 8 Pruning and Weeding 10 Clarity, Obscurity, and Ambiguity 12 Questions and Suggestions 14 Poems to Consider Barter RAVI SHANKAR Mule Hour TERRANCE HAYES Famous NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Abstraction GEOFFREY BROCK Reading Sonnevi on a Tuesday Night WAYNE MILLER PART I: FORM 2 Verse 25 Line 27 Form 29 Balance 33 Questions and Suggestions 37 Poems to Consider the rites for Cousin Vit GWENDOLYN BROOKS Po]tolka (Prague) CHRISTIAN WIMAN Form HEATHER MCHUGH What The Mosquito Gives AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL Traveling through the Dark William Stafford Unconditional Election David Baker 3 Making the Line (I) 44 Meter 46 Stress 47 Speech, Rhythm, and the Line Line Length Questions and Suggestions 60 Poems to Consider Sisyphus JAY LEEMING Signs Gjertrud Schnackenberg What We Know About Ghost Images DEBORAH BOGEN Eva Braun at Berchtesgaden VICTORIA CHANG Her Web 66 Erin Belieu One Art 67 Elizabeth Bishop 4 Making the Line (II) 69 Longer Lines 70 Lines of Mixed Length 72 Shorter Lines 74 Syllabics Prose Poe
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