Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms 85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems

Name: Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms 85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems
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ISBN: 9780472066339

ISBN-10: 0472066331

ISBN-13: 9780472066339

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: David Lehman

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This unique anthology has as its focus the notion of form in contemporary poetry. No subject has attracted more vigorous discussion within the community of poets and critics in the past ten years. If we are to understand what form is and how it shapes poetic expression, we must turn to the poems themselves for clues. And if we are very lucky, we can listen to the voice of the poets who wrote them. In Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms, contemporary poets have selected one poem, commenting on the occasion of its creation and on the form the poem eventually took. Originally published in 1987 with a selection of 65 poets, this revised and expanded edition adds selections by twenty…

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List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 9/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the 1987 Edition


A. R. Ammons


John Ashbery


Frank Bidart


Eavan Boland


Donald Britton


Lucie Brock-Broido


John Cage


Maxine Chernoff


Amy Clampitt


Marc Cohen


Wyn Cooper


Alfred Corn


Douglas Crase


Robert Creeley


Tom Disch


Jim Dolot


Rita Dove


Maria Flook


Alice Fulton


Jonathan Galassi


Amy Gerstler


Dana Gioia


Debora Greger


Marilyn Hacker


Rachel Hadas


Mac Hammond


William Hathaway


Anthony Hecht


Gerrit Henry


Daryl Hine


Edward Hirsch


John Hollander


Paul Hoover


Richard Howard


Colette Inez


Phyllis Janowitz


Lawrence Joseph


Donald Justice


Richard Kenney


John Koethe


Yusef Komunyakaa


Ann Lauterbach


David Lehman


Brad Leithauser


William Logan


J. D. McClatchy


Heather McHugh


Michael Malinowitz


Harry Mathews


William Matthews


James Merrill


W. S. Merwin


Susan Mitchell


Robert Morgan


Dave Morice


Howard Moss


Thylias Moss


Harryette Mullen


Charles North


Joyce Carol Oates


Molly Peacock


Robert Pinsky


Katha Pollitt


Mary Jo Salter


Lloyd Schwartz


Charles Simic


Louis Simpson


Elizabeth Spires


Jon Stallworthy


Mark Strand


Richard Stull


James Tate


Lewis Turco


John Updike


Mona Van Duyn


Paul Violi


Rosmarie Waldrop


Rosanna Warren


Marjorie Welish


Bernard Welt


Susan Wheeler


Richard Wilbur


Charles Wright


John Yau


Stephen Yenser


A Brief Glossary of Forms and Other Terms


Further Reading


Acknowledgments