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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Mind's Eye Imagery Sound and Idiom Imagination | |
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| One Words that Paint, Images that Speak Painting Pictures with Words | |
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| The Power of a Single Image Rendering Human Drama | |
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| The Verb as Catalyst Exploring with Images | |
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| The Quicksand of Abstraction | |
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| A Note on Revision Getting Started | |
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| The Poet s Note Card Two | |
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| The Lively Image vs. | |
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| The Deadly Clich Observations that Surprise Metaphors and Similes Listing | |
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| The Interior World | |
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| The Other Senses Dramatizing Everyday Subjects | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Three | |
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| The Sound of Contemporary Poetry | |
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| Why Poems Don t Sing | |
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| Like Songs | |
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| Conversational Poetry | |
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| Musical Poetry | |
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| How We Talk Back Home Poems | |
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| That Go Fast Revising for Sound | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Four | |
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| Conflict and Transformation | |
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| The Problem of the Human Heart Tension and Conflict | |
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| The Transformative Moment Portraying Stasis Sentiment vs. Sentimentality Revising for Clarity | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Five | |
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| Do Poems Have Plot? | |
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| Keeping Your Reader on Edge Lyric | |
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| Interludes Narrative and the Transformative Moment Braiding Heightening the Drama Stories of Childhood Closure | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Six Empathy and Creativity Becoming the Other | |
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| The Historical Persona Dramatizing Current Events Myth | |
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| The Psyche Under Pressure | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Seven Leaping through Time and Space | |
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| The Poetic Sequence Multiple Pictures Multiple Narratives Non-Numerical Sequences Revising toward the Sequence | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Eight Frames and Forms Free Verse and the Question of Form Syllabics, Metrics and Blank Verse Rhyming | |
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| The Sonnet | |
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| The Villanelle | |
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| The Sestina | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Nine Stanzas, Prose, and the Field of the Page Organizing Words on the Page | |
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| The Prose Poem Aeration Visual Caesurae | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Ten Surrealism | |
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| The Logic of Alogical Images Nonsense vs. Instinct Dream Poems Dreamtime and Magical Realism | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Eleven Writing about Sadness | |
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| The Elegy Imagery and Restraint Threnody Expectation and Surprise | |
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| The Poet's Note Card Twelve Poetry and Eros | |
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| The Predicament of the Love Poem Conflict and Tone | |
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| The Language of Des | |