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Best words, best order : essays on poetry
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- Creator
- Stephen Dobyns
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 398 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 1403961476, 9781403961471
- OCLC
- ocm52068200
- First edition published by St. Martin's Press, 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-386) and index.
- Deceptions -- Metaphor and the authenticating act of memory -- Writing the reader's life -- Notes on free verse -- Pacing : the ways a poem moves -- Function of tone -- Voices one listens to -- Traffic between two worlds -- Rilke's growth as a poet -- Mandelstam : the poem as event -- Chekhov's sense of writing as seen through his letters -- Ritsos and the metaphysical moment -- Cemetery nights -- Maker's manipulation of time -- Passerby in the birdless street -- Problem of beauty and the requirements of art