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Subtitle: essays on poetry
By: Stephen Dobyns.
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Poetry; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Poetics; Criticism
Notes: Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Deceptions; title: Metaphor and the authenticating act of memory; title: Writing the reader's life; title: Notes on free verse; title: Pacing : the ways a poem moves; title: Function of tone; title: Voices one listens to; title: Traffic between two worlds; title: Rilke's growth as a poet; title: Mandelstam : the poem as event; title: Chekhov's sense of writing as seen through his letters; title: Ritsos and the metaphysical moment; title: Cemetery night.