Titlebook: Best Words, Best Order; Essays on Poetry Stephen Dobyns Book 2003Latest edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003

Initiative

Deceptions,hing. It’s not a pretty laugh. The dwarf’s knees are bent, his arms are clasped behind his back, his ugly face is thrust forward. It is the donkeys bray, the horse laugh of mockery. I keep it on my desk to remind me that I am practicing a deception, not only to the world but to myself.

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Corporeal

Notes on Free Verse,a sense of gratification. In the second, the reader either can’t anticipate or anticipates incorrectly, while being constantly surprised with unexpected patterns and repetitions. The first system, generally speaking, is the system of traditionally metered verse. The second is the system of free vers

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The Function of Tone, to give the impression that it was driven into existence by forces impossible for the poet to resist. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in a letter to his wife (June 24, 1907), “Works of art are indeed always products of having-been-in-danger, or having-gone-to-the-very-end in an experience, to where one ca

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The Problem of Beauty and the Requirements of Art, over to fashion designers, home decorators. Yet it isn’t enough to want to write a story or novel or poem; the writer must also want to make something beautiful—even though that might mean making it ugly. Think of it this way: it is a requirement of art that a work add up to more than the sum of it