Todd F. Davis & Erin Murphy 
Making Poems [EPUB ebook] 
Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets

This diverse collection of poems and companion essays by forty nationally and internationally known poets allows readers to experience the creative process through the eyes and voice of each poet. No matter how often we are told that revision is an essential component of poetic composition, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to think of the poem as having sprung spontaneously, Athena-like, from the writer’s head. By exposing readers to the finished product as well as the poet’s own account of the poem’s creation, Making Poems offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on the poetic process that will fascinate both beginning and established writers. The book also affords poetry instructors an opportunity to demonstrate to their students the ways in which poems can originate from seemingly mundane and unlikely sources.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Learning to Make Poems—An Introduction



Red Sugar

Finding Red Sugar


Jan Beatty



Man of the Year

Strange Tercets: Merry Men, Iambic Feet, and Poetic Transgression


Robin Becker



Knot Tying Lessons: The Slip Knot

The Knot of the Poem


Fleda Brown



Brother André’s Heart: Montreal, 2003

Tenebrae: Living In/Among Shadows


J. L. Conrad



Factory Jungle

OK for Shipment


Jim Daniels



Loving the Flesh

The Body of Poetry


Todd Davis



Elegy with Fall’s Last Filaments

On “Elegy with Fall’s Last Filaments”


Chris Dombrowski



To W. S. Merwin

Translating My Way into a Poem


Dan Gerber



Contemplation with Ledges and Moon

Writing into the Evening


Jeff Gundy



Pink

On “Pink”


Kimiko Hahn



Longhouse

From the Out-There


William Heyen



Awash with blushing textures, your hips, lipped lilies

There Is No Avoiding


H. L. Hix



Dance

Shut Up & Dance


John Hoppenthaler



Sonnets for the Amish Girls of Nickel Mines

Every Buggy Has Four Wheels: Making “Sonnets for the Amish Girls of Nickel Mines”


Ann Hostetler



Double the Digits

Memory and the Problem of What Really Happened


Julia Spicher Kasdorf



Borges at the Northside Rotary

The Deliberate Transformed by the Accidental


David Kirby



Clown Baby’s Summer

The Natural Birth of Clown Baby, or How I Came to Midwife, Father, and Wet-nurse a Prose Poem Sequence

The Conception of Clown Baby


Gerry La Femina



Up Late with Loons

Making Peace


Mary Linton



Penelope

The Biography of a Poem


Shara Mc Callum



Revelation

The Poem Stripped Bare by Her Author


Dinty W. Moore



Covetous

Coveting Thy Neighbor’s Poem

Mary Rose O’Reilley The Third Winter

The Wild Horse


Erin Murphy



Anniversary

Anything Worthwhile


Lee Peterson



Orpheus, Gathering the Trees

In the Woodlot


Greg Rappleye



Sunday

An Essay with Two Short Lectures: Revising “Sunday”


Keith Ratzlaff



Repairing the Hous

The Poem and I Have a Little Conversation


Jack Ridl



Coming Out of Caliban

Are You Watching?


Steven Sherrill



Revising My Memoirs

Cutting Logic Loose from Its Tethers


David Shumate



Christopher Street Pier (Summer)

Against Solitude


Aaron Smith



Blood

On “Blood”


Lucien Stryk



Hot Pads, Cold Pads

On the Writing of “Hot Pads, Cold Pads”


Mary Swander



Fishing on the Merrimack, My Father Sees a B-24

Prisoner of War

From Sunday Supplement to Sonnet

Sequence: A Poet’s Gift to Herself


Sue Ellen Thompson



Myth

Mythmaking


Natasha Trethewey



At the Farmer’s Market in Eugene

In a Country at War


Brian Turner



The Weak Already Inherited

Response


Lee Upton



Anniversary

Revisiting the Anniversary: A Ghost Story


G. C. Waldrep



Beloved

The Eccentric Discipline


Michael Waters



Wesley Leaving

Leaving to Find Place in the Making of a Poem


Patricia Jabbeh



How Flatterers Must Be Shunned

The Prince’s Almond Trees: “How Flatterers Must Be Shunned”


Katharine Whitcomb



A Lock of Her Hair

The Charm by Which I Meant to Bring Her Back


Robert Wrigley



Contributor’s Notes



Acknowledgments