Walking Light
Memoirs and Essays on Poetry
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2014
229 pages
978-1-938160-72-1 (ISBN)
Description
Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W. W. Norton in 1993, now out of print. In Walking Light, Dunn discusses the relationship between art and sport, the role of imagination in writing poetry, and the necessity for surprise and discovery when writing a poem. Humorous, intelligent and accessible, Walking Light is a book that will appeal to writers, readers, and teachers of poetry.
Stephen Dunn is the author of eleven collection of poetry. He teaches writing and literature at the Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey, and lives in Port Republic, New Jersey.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- At the Crossroads: An Introduction
- Stepping Out
- Bringing the Strange Home
- The Good and Not So Good
- Basketball and Poetry: The Two Richies
- Some Reflections on the Abstract and the Wise
- Gambling: Remembrances and Assertions
- Complaint, Complicity, Outrage and Composition
- A History of My Silence
- Artifice and Sincerity
- The Truth: a Memoir
- Alert Lovers, Hidden Sides, and Ice Travelers: Notes on Poetic Form & Energy
- The Poet as Teacher: Vices and Virtues
- Journal Notes
- Touching the Leper's Hand: Possibilities of Affirmation
- Poets, Poetry, and the Spiritual
- The Hand Reaching Into the Crowd: James Wright's Grace and the 1993 World Series
- Experience, Imagination, and the Poet as Fictionist
- Poetry and Manners
- Love's Artifice and Fernando Pessoa
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index
