Claims for Poetry
Donald Hall, Editor
A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their art
Description
Claims for Poetry collects ideas of contemporary American poets on the subject of their art. Most contributions are essays, some are verse; some contributions are light-hearted, most are serious. These forty-three poets make widely different claims for widely different sorts of poetry—an eclectic, lively, contentious babble of voices from American poetry today.
Included are the voices of:
- Robert Bly
- Robert Creeley
- Tess Gallagher
- X. J. Kennedy
- Galway Kinnell
- Denise Levertov
- Audre Lorde
- Alicia Ostriker
- Adrienne Rich
- Ron Silliman
- Louis Simpson
- Gary Snyder
- Alice Walker
- Richard Wilbur
“I earnestly recommend [it] to everyone who is serious about poetry today… The Editor, Donald Hall, one of the most sensitive chroniclers and curators of modern poetry, has gathered statements on poetry and poetics from a wide range of our most highly regarded living poets.”
– Judson Jerome,
Writer’s Digest
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Contents
A. R. Ammons
A Poem Is a Walk - 1
Marvin Bell
The Impure Every Time - 9
Wendell Berry
Damage - 13
Robert Bly
A Wrong Turning in American Poetry - 17
What the Image Can Do - 38
Hayden Carruth
The Question of Poetic Form - 50
Robert Creeley
On the Road: Notes on Artists and Poets, 1950-65 - 62
To Define - 72
A Note - 73
A Note on the Local - 74
"Statement" for Paterson Society - 75
Poems Are a Complex - 76
Robert Duncan
Ideas of the Meaning of Form - 78
Russell Edson
Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man: Some Subjective Ideas of Notions on the Care and Feeding of Prose Poems - 95
Tess Gallagher
The Poem as Time Machine - 104
Sandra M. Gilbert
"My Name Is Darkness": The Poetry of Self-Definition - 117
John Haines
The Hole in the Bucket - 131
Donal Hall
Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird: The Psychic Origins of Poetic Form - 141
Robert Hass
One Body: Some Notes on Form - 151
Dick Higgins
Seen, Heard, and Understood - 165
Towards an Allusive Referential - 170
John Hollander
Uncommonplaces - 178
Richard Hugo
Assumptions - 186
David Ignatow
The Biggest Bomb: An Impressionistic Essay - 192
Donald Justice
Meters and Memory - 196
X. J. Kennedy
Fenced-In Fields - 203
Bliem Kern
Sound Poetry - 213
Galway Kinnell
Poetry, Personality, and Death - 219
Richard Kostelanetz
"Avant-Garde" - 238
Denise Levertov
An Admonition - 250
Origins of a Poem - 254
On the Function of the Line - 265
John Logan
On Poets and Poetry Today - 273
Audre Lorde
Poems Are Not Luxuries - 282
Thomas McGrath
Language, Power, and Dream - 286
Jackson Mac Low
Poetry, Chance, Silence, Etc. - 296
W. S. Merwin
On Open Form - 303
Frank O'Hara
Personism: A Manifesto - 306
Alicia Ostriker
The Nerves of a Midwife: Contemporary American Women's Poetry - 309
Ron Padgett
Three Poems - 328
Robert Pinsky
Poetry and the World - 331
Adrienne Rich
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision - 345
Michael Ryan
On the Nature of Poetry - 362
Ron Silliman
The New Sentence - 377
Charles Simic
Negative Capability and Its Children - 399
Louis Simpson
Reflections on Narrative Poetry - 407
W. D. Snodgrass
Tact and the Poet's Force - 417
Gary Snyder
Poetry and the Primitive: Notes on Poetry as an Ecological Survival Technique - 434
The Yogin and the Philosopher - 446
William Stafford
A Way of Writing - 450
Mark Strand
Notes on the Craft of Poetry - 453
Alice Walker
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - 459
Richard Wilbur
Poetry and Happiness - 469
Notes on Contributors - 491
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