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"she got to her name: it was 'She Sang'"

"Professional secrets"

"Where I wring out blood"

"Bent to the shape"

"The wind clicks around to the north."

Writing Problems: Failure

"Driven by a godawful wind."

"The axe for the frozen sea."

"The glint of light on broken glass."

"Furze and gorse."

"When ecstasy is inconvenient"

Writing Problems: Prizes

"Each end of the street as the edge of the world."

"Cooled my mind."

"What if—?"

"Clearer and worse."

"Helen of Colorado"

"An anguished waiting."

Craft: Poetry is a verb

"Aware of no thing but art."

"How beautiful are the retired flowers!"

"Keep feeding the lake."

"Treading the middle path"

"The history of possibility."

"Howl, world"

Craft: Digging into the pit of the self

"Down into the pit of the self"

"Berries in the woods"

"One only adds a new link."

"From still-reachable centers"

"What is to be done."

"The apples, Bill, the apples!"

Craft: Questioning and configuring silence

"Anything is a mirror."

"Unscrew the doors"

"Thief of fire"

"What we feel most has no name"

"Sometimes, the poem seems like a mask"

"My fine house that love is."

Starting the Sharpener

"Yes, yes, we're magicians."

The Sharpener

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