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Show me your environment essays on poetry, poets, and poems

✍ Scribed by Baker, David

Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
211
Series
Poets on poetry
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

InShow Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations on the “environment” of poetry from thoughts on physical places and regions as well as the inner aesthetic environment. Next, Baker looks at the highly distinctive achievements and styles of poets ranging from George Herbert and Emily Dickinson through poets writing today. Finally, he takes joy in reading individual poems—from the canonical to the contemporary; simply and closely.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 14
Poetry......Page 16
Show Me Your Environment......Page 18
Native Colors......Page 29
If: On Transit, Transcendence, and Trope......Page 31
Hum Along: How I Took up Guitar and Became a Poet......Page 47
Spill......Page 52
Poets......Page 62
Herbert’s Conceited Poetry......Page 64
Corresponding Keats......Page 69
Song of Sanity: Whitman in Washington......Page 79
At Home with Emily Dickinson......Page 88
Almost Utmost: Marianne Moore......Page 95
Re: Wright......Page 106
Irony and Ecstasy: On Maxine Kumin and Gerald Stern......Page 116
Ted’s Box: On Ted Kooser......Page 122
Provision and Perfection: Stanley Plumly’s Poetry......Page 128
Brutal Mercy: On Norman Dubie......Page 139
Signs for My Fathers: The Evolution of David Bottoms......Page 145
Heaven and Earth: On Ellen Bryant Voigt and Robert Morgan......Page 159
Story’s Stories: Anne Carson, Susan Mitchell, Carl Phillips, D. Nurkse, and Michael Collier......Page 165
Poems......Page 182
Whitman Alone: “When I Heard theLearn’d Astonomer”......Page 184
Walt Whitman’s “Time to Come”......Page 187
Life Lines: Issa and Ella Wheeler Wilcox......Page 192
Kees and Me: “Late Evening Song” and“Top of the Stove”......Page 195
Levis Here and There: “In the City of Light”......Page 198
Jane Hirshfield’s Foxes: “Three Foxes in aField at Twilight”......Page 203
Solmaz Sharif: “Personal Effects”......Page 207

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