Why don't we say what we mean?
Subtitle: essays mostly about poetry
By: Lawrence Raab
Edition: First paperback edition.
Series: Tupelo Press's Life in art series; Tupelo Press's Life in art series
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: North Adams, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781936797769
Subjects: Poetry; History and criticism
Description: A poet's meditations on the artistry of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Thomas Hardy, Wisława Szymborska, Ben Jonson, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Frost, the paintings of René Magritte, and a collaborative writing process with poet Stephen Dunn.--
Table of contents: title: Not knowing; title: Should poems tell the truth?; title: Choosing the wrong subject; title: Poetry and consolation; title: Poetry and stupidity; title: Teased into thought: three endings; title: In a different hour: collaboration, revision, and friendship; title: Forgetting: on "At evening"; title: First love: on Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"; title: Why don't we say what we mean? Robert Frost's "Mending wall"; title: Thinking out loud: on Wisława Szymborska; title: A clock called the wind: René Magritte and the mysteries of metaphor; title: Remarks as literature: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein; title: Ghosts and their discontents; title: Poetry and dreams.