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Subtitle: essays on poetry
By: Stephen Dobyns.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Poetry; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Poetics; Criticism
Description: "Dobyns explins the mystery of the poet's work and the ability of poetry to communicate thoughts and feelings between the writer and the reader. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, as well as ... chapters on [Anton] Chekhov, [Yiannis] Ritsos, [Osip] Mandelstam, and [Rainer Maria] Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious twilight communiqués. ..."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[369]-386) and index.
First edition published by St. Martin's Press, 1996.
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 nights --; title: Maker's manipulation of time --; title: Passerby in the birdless street --; title: Problem of beauty and the requirements of art.