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Best words, best order : essays on poetry /

Title:
Best words, best order : essays on poetry /
Author:
Dobyns, Stephen, 1941-
Published:
New York : 2003.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Lesley Sherrill, Emerson College
Contents:
Deceptions -- Metaphor and the authenticating act of memory -- Writing the reader's life -- Notes on free verse -- Pacing : the ways a poem moves -- Function of tone -- Voices one listens to -- Traffic between two worlds -- Rilke's growth as a poet -- Mandelstam : the poem as event -- Chekhov's sense of writing as seen through his letters -- Ritsos and the metaphysical moment -- Cemetery night -- Maker's manipulation of time -- Passerby in the birdless street -- Problem of beauty and the requirements of art.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
PN1031 .D58 2003Available
Lesley/EDS-Sherrill Library Main Stacks
PN1031 .D58 2003Available