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Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems
David Baker
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In Show 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.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Poetry
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Show Me Your Environment
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Native Colors
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If: On Transit, Transcendence, and Trope
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Hum Along: How I Took up Guitar and Became a Poet
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Spill
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Poets
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Herbert's Conceited Poetry
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Corresponding Keats
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Song of Sanity: Whitman in Washington
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At Home with Emily Dickinson
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Almost Utmost: Marianne Moore
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Re: Wright
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Irony and Ecstasy: On Maxine Kumin and Gerald Stern
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Ted's Box: On Ted Kooser
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Provision and Perfection: Stanley Plumly's Poetry
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Brutal Mercy: On Norman Dubie
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Signs from My Fathers: The Evolution of David Bottoms
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Heaven and Earth: On Ellen Bryant Voigt and Robert Morgan
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Story's Stories: Anne Carson, Susan Mitchell, Carl Phillips, D. Nurkse, and Michael Collier
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Poems
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Whitman Alone: “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer”
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Walt Whitman's “Time to Come”
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Life Lines: Issa and Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Kees and Me: “Late Evening Song” and “Top of the Stove”
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Levis Here and There: “In the City of Light”
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Jane Hirshfield's Foxes: “Three Foxes in a Field at Twilight”
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Solmaz Sharif: “Personal Effects”
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Published: 2014
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-07225-5 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12042-0 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-05225-7 (paper)