The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All /

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Author / Creator:Wright, C. D., 1949-2016, author.
Imprint:Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]
Description:xiii, 135 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10492320
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ISBN:9781556594854
1556594852
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:"A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing"--
Table of Contents:
  • In a Word, a World
  • My American Scrawl
  • Hold Still, Lion
  • A Plague of Poets
  • The Book That Jane Wrote: Midnights
  • Nuptials & Violence
  • Stripe for Stripe
  • Poems are my building projects
  • Jean Valentine, Abridged
  • Purgatorio
  • In a Word
  • Listening to John's Is Music
  • A Reader for Every Writer
  • The Book That Jane Wrote
  • Hold Still
  • Talking Pictures
  • Concerning Why Poetry Offers a Better Deal Than the World's Biggest Retailer
  • Jean Valentine
  • Poetry was. Poetry is. Poetry will be
  • Bookburn
  • Spring & All
  • In a Word
  • Spring & All
  • The not knowing whether what you've set down is any goad
  • Hold Still
  • Hold Still
  • Rene Char asked, What can we do
  • Spring & All
  • Nuptials & Violence
  • The Book That Jane Wrote
  • Purgatorio
  • During the Composition of Rising, Falling, Hovering
  • Pictures Never Taken hut Received
  • On a wall in Whitechapel
  • In a Word
  • Jean Valentine
  • Spring & All
  • Are we still seers and dreamers
  • The Book We Hold in Common
  • The Book That Brenda Wrote: Seasonal Works with Letters On Fire
  • My American Scrawl
  • I remain haunted
  • In a Word
  • Nuptials it Violence
  • During the Composition of Rising, Falling, Hovering
  • Hold Still
  • If one were to try to describe the heed that poetry requires
  • Of Those Who Can Afford to Be Gentle
  • In a Word
  • Nuptials & Violence
  • The old business about form & content
  • In Another Book That Brenda Wrote: Practical Water
  • Of Those Who Can Afford to Be Gentle
  • I went to hear a young man talk
  • Spring & All
  • The Book That Brenda Wrote
  • Hold Still
  • Jean Valentine
  • Spring & All
  • Jean Valentine
  • The Orchidaceous Ms. toy, the Amaranth, the Octopus
  • If the nineteenth century novel cannot be bested
  • "The Poem"
  • Michael Ondaatje's "Driving with Dominic..."
  • Jean Valentine
  • Spring & All
  • Hold Still
  • Jean Valentine
  • ¿Le Gusta Este Jardín...
  • In a Word
  • Poet Gale Nelson told me his all-time favorite blurb
  • Questionnaire in January
  • Grandma Wright completed fourth grade
  • End Sheet
  • Among the Poetry Books Quoted
  • About the Author