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| Note: Poems marked with asterisks are new to this edition | |
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| Preface: To the Teacher | |
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| Starting Out | |
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| Word Magic | |
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| Diction | |
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| Syntax | |
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| Pruning and Weeding | |
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| Clarity, Ambiguity, Obscurity | |
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| Questions and Suggestions | |
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| Poems to Consider | |
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| Famous, Naomi Shihab Nye | |
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| Sizing, Heather McHugh | |
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| We Three Kings, Anonymous | |
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| Realism, Czelsaw Milosz | |
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| Difficult Daughters, Angela Ball | |
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| A Poem of Attrition, Etheridge Knight | |
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| No,Mark Doty | |
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| David, Josephine Miles | |
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| For Hai Zi Who Call Himself Son of the Sea, Ye Chun | |
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| Form: The Necessary Nothing | |
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| Verse | |
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| Line | |
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| Form | |
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| Balance, Imbalance | |
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| Questions and Suggestions | |
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| Poems to Consider | |
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| Traveling through the Dark, William Stafford | |
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| April, Hettie Jones | |
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| One Heart, Li-Young Lee | |
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| Mulroney, Baron Wormser | |
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| The Impossible May Be Possible, Cynthia Macdonald | |
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| The Kiss, Marta Tomes | |
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| In the Beginning, Sarah Kennedy | |
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| Names of Horses, Donald Hall | |
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| A Grave, Marianne Moore | |
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| Storm Window, Conrad Hilberry | |
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| Making the Line (I) | |
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| Syllable-Stress Meter | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| The Length of Metrical Lines | |
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| Substitutions and Variations | |
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| A Little Scanning | |
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| Questions and Suggestions | |
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| Poems to Consider | |
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| Loveliest of Trees, A. E. Housman | |
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| Crows, Lizette Woodworth Reese | |
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| Balance, Marilyn Nelson | |
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| Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare | |
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| Scavenging the Wall, R. T. Smith | |
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| Hamlen Brook, Richard Wilbur | |
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| Move, Geoffrey Brock | |
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| Brown Recluse, Erin Belieu | |
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| Fiduciary, Randall Mann | |
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| Barbed Wire, Henry Taylor | |
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| The Payoff, Allison Joseph | |
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| Learning by Doing, Howard Nemerov | |
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| Making the Line (II) | |
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| Nonmetrical Verse: Long Lines | |
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| Nonmetrical Verse: Mixed Lines | |
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| Nonmetrical Verse: Short Lines | |
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| Syllabics and Prose Poems | |
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| Questions and Suggestions | |
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| Poems to Consider | |
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| The Return, Ezra Pound | |
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| Amaryllis, Margaret Gibson | |
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| A Simple Experiment, Muriel Rukeyser | |
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| The Wrong Street, Cornelius Eady | |
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| The Long Marriage, Maxine Kumin | |
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| Moon, Carol Frost | |
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| My sweet old et cetera, e.e. cummings | |
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| Meeting the Occasion, Lucia Cordell Getsi | |
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| The stillborn calf, Gary Young | |
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| The Sound and Look of Sense | |
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| Visible Form | |
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| Repetition | |
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| Alliteration and Assonance | |
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| Rhyme | |
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| Onamatopoeia | |
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| Questions and Suggestions | |
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| Poems to Consider | |
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| Laundromat, Lorine Niedecker | |
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| Perseid Meteor Shower, Christopher Buckley | |
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| Don't Look Back, Kay Ryan | |
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| January II, Charles Wright | |
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| Battle Scene, Kelly Cherry | |
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| Famous Last Words, Michael Heffernan | |
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| Guilt, Gerald Barrax | |
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| Ronda, Gloria Vando | |
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| Po_tolka, Christian Wiman | |
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| Reapers, Jean Toomer | |
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| To Autumn, John Keats | |
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| Content: A Local Habitation and a Name | |
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| Subject Matter | |
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| Subjects and Objects | |
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| Memory | |
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| Presenting | |
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| Implication and Focus | |
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| Questions and Suggestions | |
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| Poems to Consider | |
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| What She Could Do, Elizabeth Holmes | |
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| An Introduction, Judson Mitcham | |