| Contents |
1. Origins: the sources and motives of poetry: Ars poetica? / Czeslaw Milosz -- Toward explaining heteronymy / Fernando Pessoa -- The word & culture / Osip Mandelstam -- Some statements / Boris Pasternak -- The duende: theory and divertissement / Federico García Lorca -- Words before a reading / Luis Cernuda -- The irrational element in poetry / Wallace Stevens -- from The formal share / René Char -- from Intentions (imaginary interview) / Eugenio Montale -- from A poet's journal / George Seferis -- The vocation of the poet in the modern world / Delmore Schwartz -- What is not poetry? / Karl Shapiro -- The three faces of love / A.D. Hope -- Poetry and science / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Why write / Günter Kunert -- The specialization of poetry / Wendell Berry -- 2. Practice: the poet's work: from Notes on poetry / Antonio Machado -- A poet's notebook / Paul Valéry -- General aims and theories / Hart Crane -- Poetic manifesto / Dylan Thomas -- Projective verse and the practice / William Carlos Williams -- The pleasures of formal poetry / Louise Bogan -- Idiosyncrasy and technique / Marianne Moore -- The woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell -- Writing / W.H. Auden -- Some notes on organic form / Denise Levertov -- Notes on poetic form / Robert Duncan -- Feelings into words / Seamus Heaney -- The real work (excerpts from an interview) / Gary Snyder. |
| Local note | Joyner-Joyner Manuscript Collection #1096.11.j: Autographed on t.p. by Reginald Gibbons and Karl Shapiro. Laid in is a publisher's advance uncorrected proof notice. |
| General note | "Uncorrected proofs" - front cover. |
| General note | Joyner Manuscript Collection copy in the Overcash/Wright literary collection: A.R. Ammons papers, #1096, Special Collections Department, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-300). |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Joyner Manuscript Collection copy gift of M. Reid and Susan W. Overcash, 2007. |
