Lit from Within: Contemporary Masters on the Art and Craft of Writing

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193 Credits Lee K. Abbott, “Thirteen Things about the Contemporary Short Story That Really Hack Me Off.” Copyright © Lee K.Abbott. Rick Bass,“Good Fortune Befell Me: Notes on the Writer/Editor Relationship .” Copyright © Rick Bass. Claire Bateman,“Some Questions about Questions.”Copyright © Claire Bateman. Charles Baxter, “Stillness,” from Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction . Copyright ©1997, 2008 by Charles Baxter. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, http://www .graywolfpress.org. Ron Carlson,“The Wrong Answer.” Copyright © Ron Carlson. Billy Collins, “The Myth of Craft:Thoughts on the Writing of Poetry,” originally appeared in an earlier version as “CraftTalk” in The Southampton ReviewVol II, No 1 (Summer 2008). Copyright © Billy Collins. Peter Ho Davies,“Only Collect: Something about the Short Story Collection .” Copyright © Peter Ho Davies. Jordan Davis,“Woman (A.S.).” Used by permission. Carl Dennis,“A Poem of Character.” Copyright © Carl Dennis. Stephen Dunn,“Guardian Angel,” from New & Selected Poems: 1974–1994. Copyright © 1989 by Stephen Dunn. Reprinted with the permission of W.W. Norton. Stephen Dunn, “The Poem, Its Buried Subject, and the Revisionist Reader.” Copyright © Stephen Dunn. Thomas Sayers Ellis,“Or.” Used by permission. Louise Glück,“Walking at Night,” from AVillage Life. Copyright © 2009 by Louise Glück. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux , LLC. Robert Hass,“My Mother’s Nipples,”from Sun UnderWood. Copyright © 1996 by Robert Hass. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Robin Hemley,“Confessions of a Navel Gazer.”Copyright © Robin Hemley. Tony Hoagland,“Litany, Gamesmanship, and Representation: Charting the Old to the New Poetry.” Copyright © Tony Hoagland. 194 ◆ Credits Randall Jarrell, “A Sick Child,” from The Complete Poems. Copyright © 1969, renewed 1997 by Mary von S. Jarrell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. David Kirby,“13Things I Hate about Poetry.”Copyright © David Kirby. Maggie Nelson, “All That Is the Case: Some Thoughts on Fact in Nonfiction and Documentary Poetry.” Copyright © Maggie Nelson. Alice Notley,“Lady Poverty,”from Mysteries of Small Houses. Copyright © 1998 by Alice Notley. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Stanley Plumly,“Wildflower,” from Summer Celestial. Copyright © 1983 by Stanley Plumly. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Francine Prose,“Gesture,” from Reading Like a Writer. Copyright © 2006 by Francine Prose. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Mary Ruefle, “Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World,” originally appeared in an earlier version in Planet on theTable: Poets on the Reading Life, edited by Sharon Bryan and William Olsen, published by Sarabande Books,Inc.Copyright © 2003 by Mary Ruefle . Reprinted by permission. James Schuyler, “February,” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1993 by the Estate of James Schuyler. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Mark Strand,“Keeping Things Whole,” from New Selected Poems. Copyright © 2007 by Mark Strand. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Dean Young, “Guidance Counseling,” from First Course in Turbulence. Copyright © 1999.Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. ...