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Other titles in the Poets on Poetry series:

  1. A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry
  2. A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs
  3. All the Rage
  4. AMERIFIL.TXT: A Commonplace Book
  5. Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007
  6. Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95
  7. Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays
  8. Blue Notes
  9. Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry
  10. Claims for Poetry
  11. Collected prose
  12. Collected Prose
  13. Coming After: Essays on Poetry
  14. Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
  15. Curiosities
  16. Dancing At the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
  17. Death To the Death of Poetry
  18. Dont Ask
  19. Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes
  20. Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews
  21. Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry
  22. Essay on Rime with Trial of a Poet
  23. First Loves and Other Adventures
  24. Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85
  25. Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s
  26. Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87
  27. Line Forms Here
  28. Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place
  29. Memory Piano:
  30. Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams
  31. Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry
  32. No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose
  33. On Burning Ground: Thirty Years of Thinking about Poetry
  34. Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs
  35. Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
  36. Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt
  37. Poetics of Dislocation
  38. Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88
  39. Poetry and Consciousness
  40. Poetry and What Is Real
  41. Poetry at One Remove: Essays
  42. Poetry's Old Air
  43. Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
  44. Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays
  45. Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews
  46. Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
  47. Responsive Reading
  48. Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur
  49. Selected Prose
  50. Set in Motion
  51. Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview
  52. Ships Going Into the Blue: Essays and Notes on Poetry
  53. So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews
  54. Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity
  55. Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray
  56. The Art of Poetry
  57. The Big Question
  58. The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
  59. The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography
  60. The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry
  61. The Failure of Poetry, the Promise of Language
  62. The Gazer Within
  63. The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose
  64. The Metaphysician in the Dark
  65. The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry
  66. The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews
  67. The Poetry of Everyday Life
  68. The Spiral of Memory
  69. The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets
  70. The Uncertain Certainty
  71. The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
  72. To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living
  73. Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen
  74. Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews
  75. Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self
  76. Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir
  77. Words to Create a World: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews of Contemporary Poetry
  78. Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel
  79. Writing Like a Woman
  80. Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry
  81. You Must Revise Your Life

Writing the Australian Crawl (Poets on Poetry)

by William Stafford

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ISBN13: 9780472873005
ISBN10: 0472873008
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Synopsis:

Writing the Australian Crawl presents a new attitude toward the teaching and practice of writing-a writer isn't simply a craftsman with something to say and the skill to say it. Rather, a writer brings those attributes into a process that is filled with exciting emergencies and opportunities. In the end, something emerge that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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ISBN:
9780472873005
Editor:
Hall, Donald
Publisher:
University of Michigan Press
Editor:
Hall, Donald
Author:
Stafford, William
Location:
Ann Arbor :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Poetry, modern
Subject:
General Poetry
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Poets on Poetry
Publication Date:
July 1978
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
798x530x52 47

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