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| Direct address : dear reader | |
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| Dear critic | |
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| 1. Poetry addresses her sister, the novel | |
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| 2. The novel responds to her sister, poetry | |
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| Poetry despises your attempts at domesticity | |
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| Q and A : how is that some poems just fail? : (the abridged version) | |
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| Q and A : do you write about real stuff or do you make it all up? | |
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| The orphan poem | |
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| For Theodore Roethke | |
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| Q and A : where do you get your ideas? : answer #1 | |
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| Q and A : where do you get your ideas? : answer #2 | |
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| The current events poem : the Hindenburg and twin towers | |
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| Q and A : do you have any tips? : answer #1 | |
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| Q and A : do you simultaneously submit? | |
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| Poetry as the nurse you've come to rely on | |
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| Q and A : why don't you write formal poetry? | |
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| Q and A : how do your children affect your work? | |
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| An ars poetica about ars poetica | |
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| For Charles Simic | |
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| Q and A : don't poets just write the same poem over and over? | |
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| Q and A : why do you write? : answer #1 | |
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| The workshop poem | |
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| The stolen poem : my brother poem after Levine's 'what work is' | |
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| Q and A : do you think it helps to have had a lot of experiences and to have seen the world? | |
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| The exercise-born poem, a test-tube baby | |
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| Eve recalls birthing and her discovery of metaphor | |
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| Q and A : why do you write? : answer #2 | |
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| On the personal poem : in defense of rotting | |
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| Poem for dean young | |
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| The poem that wants to be written | |
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| Concerning Mr. Frank O'Hara and his critics, the assassins in his orchards | |
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| Prose poem : I send poetry a post card | |
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| Poetry punishes you for your absence | |
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| A poem of thanksgiving : I'm writing again | |
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| Poem that surfaces on a bad day among giants | |
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| A caution against historical poetry in the voice of Lazarus | |
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| Termites : a caution on love poetry | |
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| Marriage as a creative process, a love poem | |
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| Poetry as a lover | |
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| Poetry as a mother who chooses between us | |
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| In response to poetry is a house with many rooms | |
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| Apologia for my obsessions | |
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| An apologia for using words in poetry | |
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| Talking dirty : the marketing of poetry | |
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| Argument with Louis Simpson | |
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| Poetry in the suburbs | |
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| Q and A : do you have any tips? : answer #2 | |
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| The place poem : sparrows point | |
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| Q and A : when do you know a poem is done? | |