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Hayden Carruth survived isolation, mental health problems, and long struggle with drink and smoke to produce a vision of modern poetry rooted in the New England tradition but entirely his own. Many feel his best poems emerged from the isolation of rural Vermont, and his poems often are concerned with rural images and metaphors reflecting the land and hardscrabble people around him. Together with his second love, jazz, Carruth’s rural experiences infuse his poems with engaging and provocative ideas even as they present sometimes stark topics.

This volume collects essays and poems from such notable contributors as Donald Hall, Marilyn Hacker, Adrienne Rich, Philip Booth, Matthew Miller, and Sascha Feinstein, among many others. The book’s sections concern the kinds of writings, and the values expressed in his writings, for which Carruth was most famous, including what editor Shaun T. Griffin calls “social utility,” jazz, his impoverished rural environment, and “innovation” in poetic form.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Introduction
  2. Shaun T. Griffin
  3. pp. 1-4
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  1. 1. Realist—the social art of a solitary man
  1. Poem: Paragraph for Hayden
  2. Marilyn Hacker
  3. p. 6
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  1. An Interview with Hayden Carruth
  2. David Weiss
  3. pp. 7-21
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  1. A Tool or a Weapon, a review of For You: Poems and The Clay Hill Anthology
  2. Adrienne Rich
  3. pp. 22-26
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  1. A Meaning of Hayden Carruth
  2. David Rivard
  3. pp. 27-39
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  1. Elegiac Locales: The Anarchy of Hayden Carruth
  2. Stephen Kuusisto
  3. pp. 40-47
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  1. On Hayden Carruth: The Poetics of Social Utility
  2. Douglas Unger
  3. pp. 48-59
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  1. The Real and Only Sanity, an Essay-Review of Brothers, I Loved You All
  2. Geoffrey Gardner
  3. pp. 60-69
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  1. From the Introduction to Working Papers: Selected Essays and Reviews
  2. Judith Weissman
  3. pp. 70-78
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  1. 2. Jazzman—a lifetime of devotion to jazz, blues, and improvisation in his poetry and essays
  1. Poem: Blues Sestina for Hayden Carruth
  2. Sascha Feinstein
  3. pp. 80-81
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  1. A Love Supreme: Jazz and the Poetry of Hayden Carruth
  2. Matt Miller
  3. pp. 82-94
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  1. When You Use Your Head, Your Ears Fall Off: My Twenty Years of Listening to Music with the Supernumerary Cockroach
  2. David Budbill
  3. pp. 95-102
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  1. Those Upward Leaps: An Interview with Hayden Carruth
  2. Sascha Feinstein
  3. pp. 103-112
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  1. Freedom and Discipline: Hayden Carruth’s Blues
  2. Brian Henry
  3. pp. 113-127
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  1. Harmonic Hayden
  2. Baron Wormser
  3. pp. 128-142
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  1. Listening In, an Essay-Review of The Sleeping Beauty
  2. Sam Hamill
  3. pp. 143-152
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  1. 3. Survivor—writing through poverty, personal chaos, and literary isolation
  1. Poem: Evening Star - Joe-Anne McLaughlin
  2. pp. 154-155
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  1. Text as Test, an Excerpt from an Essay-Review of The Sleeping Beauty and Galway Kinnell’s Selected Poems
  2. Donald Hall
  3. pp. 156-159
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  1. My Friend Hayden
  2. Wendell Berry
  3. pp. 160-170
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  1. Selected Correspondence, from The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
  2. pp. 171-181
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  1. Thriving on Hardship
  2. Lynne Sharon Schwartz
  3. pp. 182-190
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  1. Others Call It God
  2. Carolyn Kizer
  3. pp. 191-196
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  1. 4. Innovator—creator of multiple poetic forms like the “paragraphs,”the “georgics,” the Vermont poems, and the epic poems
  1. Poem: A Few Riffs for Hayden, Sitting in with His Horn - Philip Booth
  2. pp. 198-199
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  1. Hayden Carruth
  2. Marilyn Hacker
  3. pp. 200-208
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  1. Being Human, the Art of Hayden Carruth
  2. Ben Howard
  3. pp. 209-232
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  1. Beautiful Dreamers: Helen in Egypt and The Sleeping Beauty
  2. Charlotte Mandel
  3. pp. 233-239
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  1. Poem: The Soft Time of the Year - Hayden Carruth
  2. p. 240
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 241-245
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