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

Contents

Contents Dedication xiii A Horse with Two Wings A Horse with Two Wings: A Note on Criticism and Poetics 1 Metrical Diversity 4 Metrical Subversions: Prosody, Poetry, and My Affair with the Amphibrach 12 A Carol for Carolyn 17 Langpo, Pomo, Newfo 18 Omniformalism: A Manifesto 22 The Body of Poetry The Body of Poetry 25 Liturgy 28 Walk with Me: On Poetry and Music 29 Passion in Translation: Louise Labé 33 Sonnet 18 “Kiss Me Again”: by Louise Labé 38 H. D., “Imagiste”? 39 Technology and Inspiration: Introduction to A Poet’s Craft 43 Poetics: A Taxonomy 47 Repetition, Repetition 49 How to Create a Poetic Tradition How to Create a Poetic Tradition 53 Mother Dickinson 58 Letter for Emily Dickinson 63 The Heart of Phillis Wheatley 64 Unnecessary Burdens: Cooper, Glück, Graham 69 Carolyn Kizer and the Chain of Women 77 My Teasdale Talisman 86 Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation 89 Confessions of a Postmodern Poetess Coherent Decentering 95 Desks 103 Stein the Romantic, Mallarmé the Radical 112 Victorian Voice-Making and the Contemporary Poet 115 Confessions of a Postmodern Poetess 120 A Many-Sounding Sea Dactylic Meter: A Many-Sounding Sea 131 A Rock in the River: Maxine Kumin’s Rhythmic Countercurrents 135 The Ghost of Meter Revisited 145 Making Shattered Faces Whole: The Metrical Code in Audre Lorde 148 In Defense of Meter 153 Limping Prosody 157 Forms of Memory 162 John Peck’s Hypnagogic Poetry 172 Encounter 177 xii ...