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v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix R O N C A R L S O N The Wrong Answer 2 R O B I N H E M L E Y Confessions of a Navel Gazer 8 F R A N C I N E P R O S E Gesture 20 B I L L Y C O L L I N S The Myth of Craft Thoughts on theWriting of Poetry 40 P E T E R H O D A V I E S Only Collect Something about the Short Story Collection 48 C H A R L E S B A X T E R Stillness 66 D A V I D K I R B Y Thirteen Things I Hate about Poetry 86 vi ◆ Contents C L A I R E B A T E M A N Some Questions about Questions 100 S T E P H E N D U N N The Poem,Its Buried Subject,and the Revisionist Reader Behind “The Guardian Angel” 118 L E E K . A B B O T T Thirteen Things about the Contemporary Short Story That Really Hack Me Off 128 T O N Y H O A G L A N D Litany, Gamesmanship, and Representation Charting the Old to the New Poetry 138 M A G G I E N E L S O N All That Is the Case SomeThoughts on Fact in Nonfiction and Documentary Poetry 154 C A R L D E N N I S A Poem of Character 164 R I C K B A S S Good Fortune Befell Me Notes on theWriter/Editor Relationship 174 M A R Y R U E F L E Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World 180 Credits 193 ...

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