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A long high whistle: selected columns on poetry
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From the Book - First Antilever edition.
Preface : Thrill at the triumphs
Introduction : Mapping the particulars
If you have to ask
To disenchant and disintoxicate
Crossing the frontiers of language
Mishmash of high and low
Incantation
To witness and to sing
This is the meaning of it
Occasion of the non-occasion
One kind of knowledge
Lost to words
Revere and condemn
Limitless solitude
Atmosphere, action, control, and coincidence
To see the invisible
Perfection of the imagination
To slay Shakespeare
Struggle to the finish
Renewed, restored, and brought home
Thingness
Look into thy heart and write
Full belief
In a single utterance
Something for the soul
Rational wit
The literary and the literal
The subject of poetry
Individuality and equality
Closed for the season
The armory show
Discretion
The imperfectly known
Continuous music
Spiral of the imagination
Distinct routes
Ceremonial rite
Reverberation
Dreamy, enigmatic, generous, and seductive
Bottomless mud
A good ear and a sharp tongue
Revolt against logic
Camaraderie and humility
Wordless ache
Not to murder the old
Poise
Parallel play
A complicated aftermark
Discovery and definition
Physical and metaphysical
Submerged into the depths of one's being
Unconventional utterance of daring thought
Beyond commotions and silences
Magnificent simile
The gamble
Epiphanies and communion
Neither marginalized nor banished
Metaphor of the whole mind
Knock back experience
The mystical, the eternal, and the numinous
Something a poet makes
Comfort and security
The crime of writing a poem
Uninterested in certainty
Something uncoerced
Walking out on the walkout
Two eternities
A secret self
Swooning vs. stinginess
Not the barometer that changes the weather
Both halves of a proposition
Unveil the hidden
Different versions
Alertness
Backbreaking
Frame of reference
Unacknowledged laws
Rex the Rocking Horse and Sammy the Seal.
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9781938308109