Book
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
Publication Information
Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xiii, 135 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
"A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing"--
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 good
- 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 but 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 & 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. Loy, the Amaranth, the Octopus
- If the nineteenth century novel cannot be bested
- "The Poem"
- Michale Ondaatje's "Driving with Dominic..."
- Jean Valentine,
- Spring & All
- Hold Still,
- Jean Valentine,
- Le Gusta Este Jardin...
- 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.