Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many friends, colleagues, and students have helped me think through the issues of this book. Lisa Katz was crucial to its conception and commented on most of the drafts. Linda Kauffman helped me turn the idea into a project. Madeleine Mysko made the text more coherent and readable, as did Helen Hodgson and the students in her classes. Susan Gunter graciously read the whole manuscript, and Willy Palomo helped check references . My colleagues and students at the Vermont College of Fine Arts heard these chapters as lectures, and my colleagues in the Westminster College faculty writing group commented on chapter drafts. All of their suggestions were invaluable. In addition, for critical insights and feedback, I thank Lisa Bickmore, Jean Cheney, Gerry Connolly, Karen Garthe, Mark Halliday, David Hamilton, Andrea Hollander, Kimberly Johnson , Lance Larsen, Laura Ann Manning, Seth Michaelson, Paisley Rekdal, Susan Sample, Anita Sherman, Elaine Terranova, and Jennifer Tonge. Thanks also to the many people who wrote to me when chapters were published in their first versions. Important institutional support was given by the Utah Humanities Council, Westminster College, the Camargo Foundation , and a Fulbright grant to Slovenia. I am grateful also to the editors and staff of the journals in which some of these essays first appeared. Versions of the first through fourth, sixth, and seventh essays were published in The Writer’s Chronicle; a version of the first essay appeared in The American Poetry Review; and a version of the eighth appeared in The Iowa Review. Finally, I offer thanks to the staff and editors of the University of Michigan Press, particularly Kazim Ali and Marilyn Hacker (who chose the manuscript), and Susan Cronin and Aaron McCollough, who saw it through the publishing process with enthusiasm and acumen. ...