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| Preface | |
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| A Way of Writing | |
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| Work and Inspiration: Inviting the Muse | |
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| Poetic Process? | |
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| Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird: The Psychic Origins of Poetic Form | |
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| Reflections on the Origins of Poetic Form | |
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| Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man: Some Subjective Ideas or Notions on the Care and Feeding of Prose Poems | |
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| Poetry and Science: The Science of Poetry/The Poetry of Science | |
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| Gorky Street: Syntax and Context | |
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| The Two-Tone Line, Blues Ideology, and the Scrap Quilt | |
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| The Working Line | |
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| A Response to "The Working Line" | |
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| Further Reflections on Line and the Poetic Voice | |
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| The Line | |
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| Some Thoughts about Lines | |
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| A Note on Prose, Verse and the Line | |
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| Some Thoughts about the Line | |
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| Images and "Images" | |
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| Notes on the Image: Body and Soul | |
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| Recognizing the Image as a Form of Intelligence | |
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| Image and Language | |
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| Noun/Object/Image | |
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| Some Remarks on "Literature and Reality" | |
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| Meanings of Poetry | |
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| Poetry, Community and Climax | |
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| Some Notes on the Gazer Within | |
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| The Bite of the Muskrat: Judging Contemporary Poetry | |
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| Not Your Flat Tire, My Flat Tire: Transcending the Self in Contemporary Poetry | |
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| Stone Soup: Contemporary Poetry and the Obsessive Image | |
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| Language: The Poet as Master and Servant | |
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| Second Honeymoon: Some Thoughts on Translation | |
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| Here and There: The Use of Place in Contemporary Poetry | |
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| Eden and My Generation | |
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| A Taxable Matter | |
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| Urgent Masks: An Introduction to John Ashbery's Poetry | |
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| Poetry, Personality and Death | |
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| Poetry, Personality and Wholeness: A Response to Galway Kinnell | |
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| Charles Wright at Oberlin | |
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| Secrets: Beginning to Write Them Out | |
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| Lessons in Form | |
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| Body and Soul: Three Poets on Their Maladies | |
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| My Insomnia and I | |
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| Backache, Poemache, and Botz | |
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| The Closest Work | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |