Best Words, Best Order
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Best Words, Best Order

Essays on Poetry

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Best Words, Best Order

Essays on Poetry

About this book

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious twilight communiques. For this new second edition, Dobyns has added two new essays, one dealing with the idea of "beauty" in poetry and another dealing with the almost mystical way poets connect seemingly disparate elements in a single work.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Deceptions
  8. 2. Metaphor and the Authenticating Act of Memory
  9. 3. Writing the Reader’s Life
  10. 4. Notes on Free Verse
  11. 5. Pacing: The Ways a Poem Moves
  12. 6. The Function of Tone
  13. 7. The Voices One Listens To
  14. 8. The Traffic between Two Worlds
  15. 9. Rilke’s Growth as a Poet
  16. 10. Mandelstam: The Poem as Event
  17. 11. Chekhov’s Sense of Writing as Seen through His Letters
  18. 12. Ritsos and the Metaphysical Moment
  19. 13. Cemetery Nights
  20. 14. The Maker’s Manipulation of Time
  21. 15. The Passerby in the Birdless Street
  22. 16. The Problem of Beauty and the Requirements of Art
  23. Notes
  24. Index