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| Preface | |
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| Introduction (1871-1938) | |
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| from Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1874-1963) | |
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| The Sound of Sense The Figure a Poem Makes (1874-1925) | |
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| Preface to Some Imagist Poets 1916 (1874-1946) | |
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| Composition as Explanation (1879-1955) | |
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| The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1883-1963) | |
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| A New Measure The Poem as a Field of Action (1885-1972) | |
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| A Retrospect How to Read (1887-1962) | |
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| Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years (1887-1972) | |
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| Idiosyncrasy and Technique (1888-1965) | |
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| Reflections on Vers Libre Tradition and the Individual Talent (1897-1970) | |
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| The Springs of Poetry (1899-1932) | |
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| General Aims and Theories (1899-1979) | |
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| Tension in Poetry (1900-1968) | |
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| Foreword to The Testament of a Stone (1902-1967) | |
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| The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1904-1978) | |
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| An Objective (1905-1982) | |
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| Disengagement: The Art of the Beat Generation (1910-1970) | |
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| Projective Verse (1911-1985) | |
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| The Problem of Form (1913-1980) | |
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| Introduction to Kaleidoscope: Poems by American Negro Poets (1913-1980) from | |
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| The Life of Poetry (1914-1965) | |
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| The Obscurity of the Poet (1914-1993) | |
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| Some Arguments Against Good Diction (1917-2000) | |
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| The New Black (1919-1988) | |
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| The Homosexual in Society (1923-1997) | |
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| Some Notes on Organic Form (b. 1923) | |
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| Reflections on Narrative Poetry (b. 1925) | |
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| Meters and Memory (1925-1965) | |
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| On Spoken Poetry (b. 1926) | |
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| A Wrong Turning in American Poetry (b. 1926) | |
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| To Define Poems Are a Complex (1926-1966) | |
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| Personism: A Manifesto (b. 1927) | |
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| The Invisible Avant-Garde (b. 1927) | |
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| On Open Form (b. 1928) | |
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| Poetry and Ambition (b. 1929) | |
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| "When We Dead Awaken": Writing as Re-Vision (b. 1932) | |
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| Bilingual/Bilingue (b. 1933) | |
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| Writing as a Woman (b. 1938) | |
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| Negative Capability and Its Children (b. 1940) | |
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| "What about All This…": Speculations on Poetry and My Relation to It (b. 1940) | |
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| Responsibilities of the Poet (b. 1941) | |
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| The Rejection of Closure (b. 1944) | |
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| Disruption, Hesitation, Silence (b. 1944) | |
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| The Rhapsodic | |
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| The Scarlet Brewer and the Voice of the Colonized (b. 1946) | |
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| The Political Economy of Poetry (b. 1948) | |
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| Tradition and Revolution: The Modern Movement and Free Verse (b. 1950) | |
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| So Much Depends (b. 1950) | |
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| Can Poetry Matter? (b. 1950) | |
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| Four of Five Motions Toward a Poetics (b. 1952) (b. 1946) | |
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| "A Black Rainbow: Modern Afro-American Poetry" (b. 1952) | |
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| Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic (b. 1966) | |
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| A Piece of Prose | |