The poet, the lion, talking pictures, El Farolito, a wedding in St. Roch, the big box store, the warp in the mirror, spring, midnights, fire & all
By: C.D. Wright
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781556594854
Subjects: Authorship; Poetry
Notes: Prose poems and short essays about the art of poetry.

Includes bibliographical references (page 133).
Table of contents: title: In a word, a world; title: My American scrawl; title: Hold still, lion; title: A plague of poets; title: The book that Jane wrote : Midnights; title: Nuptials & violence; title: Stripe for stripe; title: Poems are my building projects; title: Jean Valentine, abridged; title: Purgatorio; title: In a word; title: Listening to John's is music; title: A reader for every writer; title: The book that Jane wrote; title: Hold still; title: Talking pictures; title: Concerning why poetry offers a better deal than the world's biggest retailer; title: Jean Valentine; title: Poetry was. Poetry is. Poetry will be.; title: Bookburn; title: Spring & all; title: In a word; title: Spring & all; title: The not knowing whether what you've set down is any good; title: Hold still; title: Hold still; title: Rene Char asked, What can we do; title: Spring & all; title: Nuptials & violence; title: The book that Jane wrote; title: Purgatorio; title: During the composition of Rising, falling, hovering; title: Pictures never taken but received; title: On a wall in Whitechapel; title: In a word; title: Jean Valentine; title: Spring & all; title: Are we still seers and dreamers; title: The book we hold in common; title: The book that Brenda wrote : Seasonal works with letters on fire; title: My American scrawl; title: I remain haunted; title: In a word; title: Nuptials & violence; title: During the composition of Rising, falling, hovering; title: Hold still; title: If one were to try to describe the heed that poetry requires; title: Of those who can afford to be gentle; title: In a word; title: Nuptials & violence; title: The old business about form & content; title: In another book that Brenda wrote : Practical water; title: Of those who can afford to be gentle; title: I went to hear a young man talk; title: Spring & all; title: The book that Brenda wrote; title: Hold still; title: Jean Valentine; title: Spring & all; title: Jean Valentine; title: The orchidaceous Ms. Loy, the amaranth, the octopus; title: If the nineteenth century novel cannot be bested; title: "The poem"; title: Michael Ondaatje's "Driving with Dominic ..."; title: Jean Valentine; title: Spring & all; title: Hold still; title: Jean Valentine; title: Le gusta este jardin ...; title: In a word; title: Poet Gale Nelson told me his all-time favorite blurb; title: Questionnaire in January; title: Grandma Wright completed fourth grade; title: End sheet; title: Among the poetry books quoted.