The Poetry Reader - Mark Yakich

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Résumé :
A compact, eclectic, and teachable collection of poems based not on aesthetic, geographic, or historical parameters, but on specific aspects of poetry and poetic practices, ranging from identity and metaphor to sublimation and spirituality....

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or, I Woke Up by Jameson Fitzpatrick
The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail
Excerpt from The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion by Edmond Jab?s
Aesthetics
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women by Alice Duer Miller
Opposition by Mitsuharu Kaneko
Dramaturgy by Jason Schneiderman
Reader Response
Napoleon by Miroslav Holub
A Rugged Coast by Edward Mullany
The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am A Poet by Lynn Emanuel
The Price of a Finger by Wang Ping
Classroom Reading
Early Poem by Lucy Ives
Poetry Readings
At the Student Poetry Reading by Kim Stafford
Nondisabled Demands by The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Poetry Reading by Anna Swir
Spirituality
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by Amira Baraka
Your Animal by Gerald Stern
Goodtime Jesus by James Tate
Making Applesauce with My Dead Grandmother by Bianca Stone
Down Jacket God by Moon Bo Young
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit by T'ao Ch'ien
Flight
Waiting for a Ride by Gary Snyder
Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet by Tony Hoagland
Lanro Temple by Chen Xianfa

WRITING
First Principles
so you want to be a writer? by Charles Bukowski
no more grandma poems by Yolanda Wisher
Form
The Fish by Marianne Moore
Excerpt from Chapter E of Eunoia by Christian B?k
Personals by C.D. Wright
what's not to liken? by Evie Shockley
Sonnet
Excerpt from Nets by Jen Bervin
Sonnet 19 by John Milton
Sonnet 132 by Gaspara Stampa
Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
shattered sonnet #3 by Olena Kalytiak Davis
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Identity
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
Where Do You Come From? by Meena Alexander
Poppies in October by Sylvia Plath
The Red Poppy by Louise Gl?ck
Self-Expression
Excerpt from Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
'You Should Write a Poem About That,' They Say by Emilia Phillips
The Self in Poetry: A GNAT (Grossly Non-Academic Talk) with a Weaving Metaphor by Rachel Zucker
Memory
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Standing by a Shelf by Brandon D. Johnson
Theories of Time and Space by Natasha Trethewey
My Father's Mother Asks Him to Forget the War by John Z. Guzlowski
Digging by Seamus Heaney
Sublimation
When I Am Asked by Lisel Mueller
the mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel by Sherman Alexie
Dreams by Ashley Durant
Imitation
Excerpt from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart
Arrival by Jeffrey Harrison
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Coy Mistress by Annie Finch
Variations on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop by John Murillo
Avant-Garde
To make a dadaist poem by Tristan Tzara
Revision
Revision by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Poet-Teachers
Pencil by Marianne Boruch
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
Professionalization
With Tenure by David Lehman
Portrait of an Administrator with Strategic Plan and Office Supplies by Jehanne Dubrow
Literary Magazines
Rejections by Etheridge Knight
Publication
Publication Date by Franz Wright
Series, Sequence
On Living by Nazim Hikmet
Children (from Holocaust) by Charles Reznikoff
Excerpt from My Life by Lyn Hejinian
Series as Opposed to Sequence by Mary Leader
Collections
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