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Introduction -- Heresy and the American ideal: on T. R. Hummer -- To advantage dressed: Miller Williams among the Naked poets -- Culture, inclusion, craft: on Albert Goldbarth, Jane Kenyon, Li-Young Lee, Wayne Koestenbaum, David Wojahn, Alice Fulton -- The push of reading: on Jorie Graham, Carol Muske, Sherod Santos, A. R. Ammons -- Framed in words: on Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland -- Smarts: on Susan Howe, Andrew Hudgins, Mark Doty, Lynda Hull, Billy Collins -- Kinds of knowing: on Eric Pankey, Louise Glück, Linda Bierds -- Plainness and sufficiency: on April Bernard, Susan Hahn, Lynne McMahon, Donald Revell, Rodney Jones -- Line by line: on Donna Masini, Donald Platt, A̕nnah Sobelman, Arthur Smith, Deborah Digges, Elizabeth Spires -- Probable reason, possible joy: on Henri Coulette, Diane di Prima, June Jordan -- On restraint: on Ted Kooser, Charles Simic, Galway Kinnell, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Charles Wright -- Romantic melancholy, romantic excess: on Linda Gregerson, Stephen Dunn, Sharon Olds, Stanley Plumly, Robert Hass -- Against mastery: Adrienne Rich and Philip Levine -- The crux of the matter: David Wojahn -- The romance of betrayal: David St. John -- Hieroglyphs of erasure: Albert Goldbarth -- "Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, 1936". |
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