The Body of Poetry : Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self.

Intro -- Contents -- Dedication -- A Horse with Two Wings -- A Horse with Two Wings: A Note on Criticism and Poetics -- Metrical Diversity -- Metrical Subversions: Prosody, Poetry, and My Affair with the Amphibrach -- A Carol for Carolyn -- Langpo, Pomo, Newfo -- Omniformalism: A Manifesto -- The Body of Poetry -- The Body of Poetry -- Liturgy -- Walk with Me: On Poetry and Music -- Passion in Translation: Louise Labé -- Sonnet 18 "Kiss Me Again": by Louise Labé -- H. D., "Imagiste"? -- Technology and Inspiration: Introduction to A Poet's Craft -- Poetics: A Taxonomy -- Repetition, Repetition -- How to Create a Poetic Tradition -- How to Create a Poetic Tradition -- Mother Dickinson -- Letter for Emily Dickinson -- The Heart of Phillis Wheatley -- Unnecessary Burdens: Cooper, Glück, Graham -- Carolyn Kizer and the Chain of Women -- My Teasdale Talisman -- Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation -- Confessions of a Postmodern Poetess -- Coherent Decentering -- Desks -- Stein the Romantic, Mallarmé the Radical -- Victorian Voice-Making and the Contemporary Poet -- Confessions of a Postmodern Poetess -- A Many-Sounding Sea -- Dactylic Meter: A Many-Sounding Sea -- A Rock in the River: Maxine Kumin's Rhythmic Countercurrents -- The Ghost of Meter Revisited -- Making Shattered Faces Whole: The Metrical Code in Audre Lorde -- In Defense of Meter -- Limping Prosody -- Forms of Memory -- John Peck's Hypnagogic Poetry -- Encounter.

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