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"So often shaken—it is the voice"

"and a horn, a tangent, leads me to rest"

Craft: Nicanor Parra

"to widen instead the tube of that measure"

"Breathe on me still, star, sister"

"your arms of burnt air"

Craft: Joe Bolton

"partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches"

"in the field goldenrod blackened"

"drain of night"

Paging: AIDS and the Art of Living

"Untuned, unstrung"

"The creek was like 12,845 telephone booths in a row with high Victorian ceilings and all the doors taken off and all the backs of the booths knocked out"

"Why court the brink & then step back?"

Craft: Kathleen Fraser

"as the stony unbeliever might"

"you blanch black lurk and blood the pallid bone"

"from the wrong side of the world"

Craft: Babette Deutsch

"with bat wings and the crystal"

"Who rises?"

Poetry as a Tool to Understand Our Moment

"this rooster-pull-down-morning glee"

Craft: Henri Coulette

"A deep volcanian yellow took the place"

"The central ton of every place"

"in its reticulated weathers"

Writing Problems: Verbs

"I arise and unbuild it again—"

"The white flowers arrived!"

"like mist risen"

Craft: Beth Bentley

"reach and reel and roll and reap—"

"Singing songs in whole or in part"

"Each half of it—"

Writing Problems: Shifts in Time

"amulets against nothing"

"dreams it can descend upon itself"

"Always it's impossible what someone asks—"

Craft: Minnie Bruce Pratt

"As a yell able to outyell itself"

"Delicate clatter: however—"

"future. a crimson valley"

Craft: Carol Conroy

"wetness and seeds"

"for control took dominion everywhere"

"This is progress"

Craft: Frank Lima

"Puff out the hot-air balloon now"

"What a concerto"

"my bones are angry with me"

Writing Problems: Attachment and Detachment in Craft

"Listen how they surround."

"Neither describable nor bearable"

"The view of flesh, mind's muchness."

Craft: Julia Hartwig

"you recognize the first white note"

"with the first beheading of the jasmine"

"low lying leaves and moist prophet eyes"

Craft: Larry Eigner

"And a green inch be his bearer"

"If they want to pull they should pull at their own pullables"

"We vaunt our days in neon"

Writing Problems: Attachment

"Tendril of convolvulus"

"like a good baby to breakfast"

"under the first blackbirds"

Craft: Joanne Kyger

"whatever glimmers in mirror and wineglass"

"a child of air, mint, and cello"

"like spent violets"

Craft: Shuntarō Tanikawa

"from play splayed in pulses"

"This concludes the tour of the battlefield"

"each a small chimney for a twist of air"

Craft: Lucia Perillo

"Let me travel, seed cries"

"The blood's quick night"

"Because of the fragile nature of the pouch"

Craft: Ewa Lipska

"To cut across the reflex of a star"

"Then re-filled with too much, I."

"white peacocks, evensong"

Craft: David Ferry

"—glorious, windless blue—"

"the clear lymph nor the built bones"

"finer than cobweb and as elastic"

Craft: Anne Porter

"Exhales an indigo nimbus"

"I want world-light and this-world company"

"a hundred pairs of eyes"

Paging: Agnes Martin's Writings

"full of nails and ghosts"

"on the crest on each inhalation"

"I lived by silences, by hibernations"

Paging: Locus Solus

"greening in the dark"

"had a true weaving song"

"Too late the last express passes through the dust of gardens"

Paging: Emily Dickinson's Herbarium

"please tell the panel your secret"

"Saturn holds the wreath"